Meaning

noun a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British)

noun a sharp bend in a line produced when a line having a loop is pulled tight

noun a person with unusual sexual tastes

originFrom Dutch kink (“a twist or curl in a rope”), from Proto-Germanic *kenk-, *keng- (“to bend, turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *gengʰ- (“to turn, wind, braid, weave”). Compare Saterland Frisian Kink (“twist or entanglement in a rope or cord”), Middle Low German kinke (“spiral screw, coil”), Old Norse kikna (“to bend backwards, sink at the knee”), Icelandic kengur (“a bend or bight; a metal…

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