kink

1. 1.

   curl tightly

   “crimp hair”

   Synonymscrimpcrapefrizzlefrizzkink up

   Broadercurl
2. 2.

   form a curl, curve, or kink

   “the cigar smoke curled up at the ceiling”

   Synonymscurlcurve

   Broaderchange surface

Other forms of kink

plural

kinks·

past tense

kinked·

present participle

kinking·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about kink

What does kink mean?

kink means "a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British)". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in kink?

kink has 1 syllable: kink.

What is another word for kink?

Close synonyms include crick, rick, wrick, twist, twirl. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is kink a common word?

kink is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.