kink /ˈkɪŋk/noun 8verb 4forms 3phrases 2 noun8 •A tight curl, twist, or bend in a length of thin material, hair etc.We couldn't get enough water to put out the fire because of a kink in the hose. •A difficulty or flaw that is likely to impede operation, as in a plan or system.They had planned to open another shop downtown, but their plan had a few kinks. •(informal) Peculiarity or deviation in sexual behaviour or taste.No more kink. Nothing. Finito. Got it? — 1980 •(informal) Any sexual preference outside normal or expected norms. •(informal, disapproving) A person with peculiar sexual tastes."What do they think you know?" "No more than I've told you. That he's a kink. He rapes people and kills people and spends too much money and flies grass in." — 1985 •An unreasonable notion; a crotchet; a whim; a caprice.Never a Yankee was born or bred / Without that peculiar kink in his head / By which he could turn the smallest amount / Of whatever he had to the best account. — 1856 •(dialect, Scotland) A convulsive fit of coughing or laughter; a sonorous indraft of breath; a whoop; a gasp of breath caused by laughing, coughing, or crying. •A positive 1-soliton solution to the sine-Gordon equation. verb4 •To form a kink or twist. •To be formed into a kink or twist. •To laugh loudly. •To gasp for breath as in a severe fit of coughing. formskinked · kinking · kinks Phrases with kink kink onTo have a kink (abnormal sexual interest) for. kink outTo dress in kinky, BDSM-themed clothing.
