kink

IPA: kˈɪŋk

(Scotland, dialect) 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 tight curl, twist, or bend in a length of thin material, hair etc.
A difficulty or flaw that is likely to impede operation, as in a plan or system.
An unreasonable notion; a crotchet; a whim; a caprice.
(informal, countable or uncountable) Peculiarity or deviation in sexual behaviour or taste.
(informal, countable) A person with peculiar sexual tastes.
(mathematics) A positive 1-soliton solution to the sine-Gordon equation.

Examples of "kink" in Sentences

Don't be shy in hammering out the kinks
Why the large dog's leg kink in the fence
I'll be working out the kinks over the weeks.
The channel is formed to preclude kinking of the tube.
Sunspots are kinks or knots in the sun's magnetic field.
If they get the kinks worked out, will the make the site vanish
The bill is too long for intermediate, and the neck kink is distinctive.
The new curve has thus a horizontal first branch and a kink at the point.
At the moment there are lots of pretty pictures that don't kink to the text.
Of course, such kinks are not unusual for a huge municipal construction project.