kink

verb

1. To laugh loudly.
2. To gasp for breath as in a severe fit of coughing.
3. (transitive)To form a kink or twist.
4. (intransitive)To be formed into a kink or twist.

noun

1. (Scotland, dialectal)A convulsive fit of coughing or laughter; a sonorous indraft of breath; a whoop; a gasp of breath caused by laughing, coughing, or crying.
2. (countable, uncountable)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.”

3. (countable, uncountable)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.”

4. (countable, uncountable)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.”

   “"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."”

5. (countable, uncountable)Peculiarity or deviation in sexual behaviour or taste.

   “No more kink. Nothing. Finito. Got it?”

   “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.”

6. (countable, uncountable)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."”

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

7. (countable, uncountable)Any sexual preference outside normal or expected norms.
8. (countable, uncountable)A positive 1-soliton solution to the sine-Gordon equation.