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kink

noun

1 your fishing line should have no kinks or frays:

curl, crimp, twist, twirl, ringlet, wave, frizz;

knot, tangle, entanglement, coil, loop, crinkle, wrinkle, warp, distortion, irregularity.

2 go around the kink in the road:

bend, corner, angle, dogleg, crook, twist, turn, curve, loop, zigzag;

British hairpin bend.

3 though the system is making headway, there are still some kinks to iron out:

flaw, defect, imperfection, problem, difficulty, complication, hitch, snag, shortcoming, weak point/spot, weakness, catch;

informal hiccup, glitch.

4 I haven't come here to talk about my sartorial kinks:

peculiarity, quirk, idiosyncrasy, eccentricity, oddity, foible, whim, whimsy, caprice, vagary, twist, crotchet, mannerism, fad;

aberration, irregularity, deviation, perversion, fetish;

informal hang-up, thing;

rare singularity.