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Twisted loop in string
Answer for the clue "Twisted loop in string ", 4 letters:
kink
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Etymology 1 n. A convulsive fit of coughing or laughter; a sonorous indraft of breath; a whoop; a gasp of breath caused by laughing, coughing, or crying. vb. 1 To laugh loudly. 2 To gasp for breath as in a severe fit of coughing. Etymology 2 n. 1 A tight ...
Usage examples of kink.
The kink is one of those anomalies that reinforces a theory because, in retrospect, it should have been predictable.
Strange energistic vortices swirled around the dimensional twist where the two continua intermingled, kinking reality.
Cait stretched out the kinks in her back, then sat down with her back against the cart and looked back.
Her shoulders were so tight she had to roll them to get the kinks out.
With only a little help from him, she had dismounted and gone through a series of stretching exercises designed, he surmised, to work out the kinks in her spine.
Fortunately I was mounted on one of the best horses in my string, and having the farthest to go, shook the kinks out of him as old Paul and myself tore down the mesa.
She stretched the kinks out of her back, then looked distastefully at her sodden boots, and walked barefoot to the firepit.
By the time everything was back to normal and he was ready to stretch the kinks out of his joints, a movement across the circle caught his eye.
She waited until she heard the howls a few streets over, then unfolded slowly from the squat, tightened and loosened her muscles a few times to work the kinks out, slipped across the street and moved along the wall until she reached the area where the Soak had disappeared.
I was sitting in a fingerbowl, getting some of the kinks out of my spine and other assorted parts when a really odd match-up came strolling in.
British rock became the dominant popular music on the planet for more than a decade: Eric Clapton, David Bowie, Pete Townshend, all of the Pink Floyd, Keith Richards, Ron Wood, Ray and Dave Davies of the Kinks, Jeff Beck and Eric Burdon, to name only the most famous.
From the top of the fused and enclosed kettles came a pipelike copper spout with several odd turns and kinks in it.
Every one of them began practicing, to work out the kinks incurred during this latest layoff, and to experiment with new tricks and turns.
The line-abreast formation was levelling up, as some ships cut revs and others increased slightly, to get the kinks out.
It was the same old Alana he was seeing, looking just the way she had during those first few firing drills in the armory, when she was trying to work the kinks out of her reflexes.