kinked Definition

kink
noun

1. A bend or twist in hair or in a string, rope, wire, etc.

Thesaurus: twist, tangle, crinkle, cramp, crimp, bend, coil, corkscrew, wrinkle, knot, loop, curl, crick.
2. colloq
An oddness of personality; an eccentricity, especially a strange sexual preference.
Thesaurus: eccentricity, fetish, idiosyncrasy, oddity, quirk, vagary, whim, peculiarity, caprice, foible, singularity, crotchet.
3. A crick in the neck or a similar spasm affecting a muscle.
4. An imperfection; a minor difficulty.

Thesaurus: difficulty, complication, hitch, snag, impediment, defect, entanglement, flaw, imperfection.

verb

tr & intr
kinked, kinking
1. To develop, or cause something to develop, a kink.

Example: Flow stopped due to the hose kinking
Thesaurus: bend, coil, crimp, curl, tangle, twist, wrinkle; Antonym: straighten.

Etymology: 17c: probably Dutch, meaning ‘a twist in a rope'.