Usually means: Unusual characteristic that defines individual.
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  1. quirk: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. quirk: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. quirk: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. quirk: Collins English Dictionary
  5. quirk: Vocabulary.com
  6. Quirk, quirk: Wordnik
  7. quirk: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Quirk, quirk: Wiktionary
  9. quirk: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. quirk: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. quirk: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Quirk, quirk: Dictionary.com
  13. quirk: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. quirk: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Quirk (disambiguation), Quirk, The Quirk: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Quirk: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. quirk: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. quirk: Rhymezone
  19. quirk: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. quirk: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. quirk: Free Dictionary
  22. quirk: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Quirk, quirk: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. Quirk: The Word Detective
  25. quirk: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. quirk: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. quirk: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. quirk: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Quirk: Castle Terms
  2. QuIRK: Acronym Finder

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. quirk: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. quirk: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See quirkily as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An idiosyncrasy; a slight glitch, mannerism; something unusual about the manner or style of something or someone.
noun:  (architecture) An acute angle dividing a molding; a groove that runs lengthwise between the upper part of a moulding and a soffit.
noun:  (archaic) A quibble, evasion, or subterfuge.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) move with a wry jerk.
verb:  (transitive, architecture) To furnish with a quirk or channel.
verb:  To alter in a unique and unusual way.
verb:  (intransitive, archaic) To use verbal tricks or quibbles.
noun:  A surname.
verb:  Alternative form of querk [(transitive) To throttle; choke; stifle; suffocate.]

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