The Oxford Thesaurus An A-Z Dictionary of Synonyms - kinkn.

1) twist, crimp, tangle, knot, wrinkle, curl, coil, curlicue, crinkle: Those kinks wouldn't occur if you had coiled the rope properly. 2) pang, twinge, stab, spasm, cramp, stitch, tweak, crick: I have a kink in my neck from constantly looking down. 3) difficulty, complication, flaw, hitch, snag, defect, imperfection, distortion, deformity: There were several kinks that had to be ironed out before the plan was presented to the board. 4) crotchet, quirk, whim, caprice, fancy, vagary, eccentricity, idiosyncrasy: He would win more support if he rid himself of certain kinks in his thinking.