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 understand how they can define each other.
'start running with kinky boots' is the wordplay.
'start' suggests taking the first letters.
'with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'kinky' is an anagram indicator.
The first letter of 'running' is 'r'.
'boots' with letters rearranged 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" .)