Artificial people start running with kinky boots (6)
I believe the answer is:
robots
'artificial people' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are plural nouns, I don't see how they can define each other.
'start running with kinky boots' is the wordplay.
'start' says to take the initial letters.
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'kinky' indicates an anagram.
The initial letter of 'running' is 'r'.
'boots' anagrammed gives 'obots'.
'r'+'obots'='ROBOTS'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for robots that I've seen before include "Automata" , "Mechanisms that can move automatically" , "Machines that look and act like humans" , "Automatic machines, may resemble people" , "Mechanical men" .)