Definition of "wrinkle"

wrinkle¹

/ˈɹɪŋkl̩/

noun
plural wrinkles
1. A small furrow, ridge or crease in an otherwise smooth surface.
2. A line or crease in the skin, especially when caused by age or fatigue.
3. A fault, imperfection or bug especially in a new system or product; typically, they will need to be ironed out.
4. A twist on something existing; a novel difference.
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  There were now a grab bag of southern country-rock units with a new wrinkle—Black Oak Arkansas, for one, combined psychedelia, fifties rock, Hindu spiritualism, and gospel into “psycho-boogie,” or “raunch 'n' roll.”
  2015, Mark Ribowsky, Whiskey Bottles and Brand-New Cars
verb
third-person singular simple present wrinkles, present participle wrinkling, simple past and past participle wrinkled
1. (transitive) To make wrinkles in; to cause to have wrinkles.
  Quotations
  her wrinkled form in black and white array'd
  1712 May, [Alexander Pope], “The Rape of the Locke. An Heroi-comical Poem.”, in Miscellaneous Poems and Translations. […], London: […] Bernard Lintott […], canto
2. (intransitive) To pucker or become uneven or irregular.
3. (intransitive, of skin) To develop irreversibly wrinkles; to age.
4. (intransitive, obsolete) To sneer (at).
  Quotations
  Ther's some weakenes in your brother you wrinkle at
  1604 (date written), Iohn Marston [i.e., John Marston], Parasitaster, or The Fawne, […], London: […] T[homas] P[urfoot] for W[illiam] C[otton], published 1606, (please specify the page)

wrinkle²

/ˈɹɪŋkl̩/

noun
plural wrinkles
1. (US, dialect) A winkle

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