killer vs kink

killer

noun
  • That which causes stress or is extremely difficult, especially that which may cause failure at a task. 

  • A particularly heavy type of handstamp, or portion of one, often obscuring a large part of the postage stamp. 

  • A knockout form of darts or pool involving several players. 

  • Synonym of virama (“kind of diacritical mark”) 

  • One who or that which kills. 

  • A remarkably impressive person or thing. 

  • Something that is so far ahead of its competition that it effectively kills off that competition. 

  • A club used for killing fish. 

adj
  • Causing death, destruction, or obliteration. 

  • Excellent, very good, cool. 

  • Distressing, uncomfortable. 

kink

noun
  • A difficulty or flaw that is likely to impede operation, as in a plan or system. 

  • A convulsive fit of coughing or laughter; a sonorous indraft of breath; a whoop; a gasp of breath caused by laughing, coughing, or crying. 

  • A positive 1-soliton solution to the sine-Gordon equation. 

  • A tight curl, twist, or bend in a length of thin material, hair etc. 

  • An unreasonable notion; a crotchet; a whim; a caprice. 

  • Peculiarity or deviation in sexual behaviour or taste. 

  • A person with peculiar sexual tastes. 

verb
  • To laugh loudly. 

  • To be formed into a kink or twist. 

  • To form a kink or twist. 

  • To gasp for breath as in a severe fit of coughing. 

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