Chink vs. Kink

Chink is an English-language ethnic slur usually referring to a person of Chinese descent. The word is also sometimes indiscriminately used against people of East Asian appearance in general.

a sharp twist or curve in something that is otherwise straight

A narrow opening, such as a crack or fissure.

a crick in the neck.

A slight, metallic sound, as of coins rattling in a pocket.

form or cause to form a sharp twist or curve

Used as a disparaging term for a person of Chinese birth or descent.

A tight curl, twist, or bend in a length of thin material, as one caused by the tensing of a looped section of wire.

To make narrow openings in.

A painful muscle spasm, as in the neck or back; a crick.

To fill narrow openings in.

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

To make or cause to make a slight, metallic sound.

A mental peculiarity; a quirk.

A narrow opening such as a fissure or crack.

An unusual or eccentric idea.

A narrow beam or patch of light admitted by such an opening.

(Slang) Peculiarity or deviation in sexual behavior or taste.

A chip or dent in something metallic.

To form or cause to form a kink or kinks.

(figuratively) A vulnerability or flaw in a protection system or in any otherwise formidable system.

To laugh loudly.

(countable) A slight sound as of metal objects touching each other; a clink.

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

Ready money, especially in the form of coins.

(transitive) To form a kink or twist.

(transitive) To fill an opening such as the space between logs in a log house with chinking; to caulk.

(intransitive) To be formed into a kink or twist.

(intransitive) To crack; to open.

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

(transitive) To cause to open in cracks or fissures.

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

(intransitive) To make a slight sound like that of metal objects touching.

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

(transitive) To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, etc., by bringing them into collision with each other.

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

A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of a wall.

Peculiarity or deviation in sexual behaviour or taste.

a chinaman; a chinese person; - disparaging and offensive.

A person with peculiar sexual tastes.

A short, sharp sound, as of metal struck with a slight degree of violence.

(mathematics) A positive 1-soliton solution to the sine-Gordon equation.

Money; cash.

A twist or loop in a rope or thread, caused by a spontaneous doubling or winding upon itself; a close loop or curl; a doubling in a cord.

To crack; to open.

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

To cause to open in cracks or fissures.

A fit of coughing; also, a convulsive fit of laughter.

To fill up the chinks of; as, to chink a wall.

To wind into a kink; to knot or twist spontaneously upon itself, as a rope or thread.

To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, etc., by bringing them into collision with each other.

a sharp bend in a line produced when a line having a loop is pulled tight

To make a slight, sharp, metallic sound, as by the collision of little pieces of money, or other small sonorous bodies.

curl tightly;

offensive terms for a person of Chinese descent

form a curl, curve, or kink;

a narrow opening as e.g. between planks in a wall

a short light metallic sound

make or emit a high sound;

fill the chinks of, as with caulking

make cracks or chinks in;