kink

present singular third person kinks · participle present kinking · participle past kinked · past kinked · alternative chink

1. To laugh loudly.
2. To gasp for breath as in a severe fit of coughing.

plural kinks · alternative chink

1. ScotlanddialectalA convulsive fit of coughing or laughter; a sonorous indraft of breath; a whoop; a gasp of breath caused by laughing, coughing, or crying.

plural kinks · alternative k1nk · alternative k!nk · alternative k/nk · alternative k*nk

1. countableuncountableA tight curl, twist, or bend in a length of rope, line, or other long cylindrical material, such as hair etc.First known use 17th c.

   We couldn't get enough water to put out the fire because of a kink in the hose.

2. countableuncountableA cramp or stiffness in a part of the nody, especially the neck or back.First known use 18th c.
3. countableuncountableAn unusual or irrational notion; a whim; a caprice.First known use 18th c.

   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, Frederick Swartwout Cozzens, The Sparrowgrass Papers

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   "Still, boozers can be worked sometimes. Most people can, if you encourage their kink. One old woman staked me for three months because she got such a kick out of scandalmongering the neighbours to me."

   1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 17

4. countableuncountableA minor difficulty or flaw that is likely to impede operation, as in a plan or system.First known use 19th c.

   They had planned to open another shop downtown, but their plan had a few kinks.

5. countableA sexual behaviour or taste considered to be unusual or unconventional.First known use 20th c.

   It was Gerald converted me to be a true corsetlover when I was female impersonator in the High School play […]. He got that kink, fascinated by sister's stays.

   1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 15: Circe]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 503

6. uncountableUnconventional or deviant sexual desires or practices, seen as a mass concept.First known use 20th c.

   No more kink. Nothing. Finito. Got it?

   1980, Paul Schrader, American Gigolo, spoken by Julian Kaye (Richard Gere)

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   To top it all off, Lynn is into kink. Last night she was really into kink. It's a good thing that today is my day off because I need the time to recuperate and think things over.

   2013, Alison Tyler, H Is for Hardcore, page 13

   Synonyms: paraphilia · Antonyms: normophilia

7. countableuncountableA person with peculiar sexual tastes; (sometimes more loosely) an eccentric.First known use 20th c.

   “He's a kink. All I have to do is toss off my clothes and dance around his apartment while he sits and drools.”

   2013, James Hadley Chase, A Can of Worms

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   "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, John Dann MacDonald, Five Complete Travis McGee Novels, page 254

   Synonyms: kinkster

8. countableuncountablemathematicsA positive 1-soliton solution to the sine-Gordon equation.

present singular third person kinks · participle present kinking · participle past kinked · past kinked · alternative k1nk · alternative k!nk · alternative k/nk · alternative k*nk

1. transitiveTo form a kink or twist.
2. intransitiveTo be formed into a kink or twist.