wink
IPA: wˈɪŋk
noun
- An act of winking (a blinking of only one eye), or a message sent by winking.
- A brief period of sleep; especially forty winks.
- A brief time; an instant.
- The smallest possible amount.
- A subtle allusion.
- (tiddlywinks) Synonym of tiddlywink (“small disc used in the game of tiddlywinks”)
- (chiefly Britain) Synonym of periwinkle
verb
- (obsolete, intransitive) To close one's eyes in sleep.
- (intransitive) To close one's eyes.
- (intransitive) Usually followed by at: to look the other way, to turn a blind eye.
- (intransitive) To close one's eyes quickly and involuntarily; to blink.
- (transitive, intransitive) To blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion, usually with an implication of conspiracy. (When transitive, the object may be the eye being winked, or the message being conveyed.)
- (intransitive) To gleam fitfully or intermitently; to twinkle; to flicker.
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Examples of "wink" in Sentences
- He winked at her for no reason.
- She winked at the boy she likes.
- The pirate with the oar winks at her.
- In the wink of an eye, everything changes.
- From anarchy to fascism in the wink of an eye.
- Who knows what could happen in the wink of an eye.
- The perplexed and bewildered priest winked his eyes.
- During a wink, the eye is closed and the eyebrow dips.
- As the context changes, the meaning of the wink changes.
- What's interesting, however, is that the meaning of the wink is not stable.
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