winker
IPA: wˈɪŋkɝ
noun
- A person or an animal that winks (“blinks with one eye; blinks with one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion, usually with an implication of conspiracy”).
- A person who connives with another; a conniver.
- A thing which is used to wink with, or which winks.
- (automotive, informal) Synonym of turn signal (“each of the flashing lights on each side of a vehicle which is used to indicate that the vehicle is moving left or right”); a blinker, an indicator.
- (equestrianism, also attributive and figurative) Chiefly in the plural: synonym of blinker (“a shield attached to the bridle of a horse or other domesticated animal to prevent it from seeing things behind it and to its side”)
- (music) A small bellows in an organ, regulated by a spring, which controls variations of wind pressure.
- (ornithology) The nictitating membrane (“transparent protective fold of skin acting as an inner eyelid”) of a birds's eye.
- (Britain, dialectal or slang) An eye.
- (Britain, US, dialectal or slang) An eyelash.
- A surname from German.
- (tiddlywinks) Clipping of tiddlywinker (“a player of the game of tiddlywinks”). [(tiddlywinks) A player of the game of tiddlywinks.]
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Examples of "winker" in Sentences
- Sarah Palin's Brown eye: Not the winker, but the stinker
- October 12, 2008 at 3:35 pm whew. thot my winker was borked.
- Shop Gossip Ronaldo sold for £80m: Good bye to the "winker" So Manchester United have ju ..
- That's not to say that the Portuguese 'winker' hasn't taken some inspiration from Mr Beckham over the years.
- Visit www.feelunique.com for more information on how to take part, become a winker and make money from fluttering your eyelids.
- I bet McCain hates knowing that 'lipstickwearing skirthugging winker' at the bottom of his ticket (who he wishes was under him) is drawing crowds bigger than him.
- Resident hunk and winker extraordinaire Zac Efron took the reigns, stating This is the final year at East High for the Wildcats, so we're kind of deciding for ourselves what we should do with our futures.
- "Giles called him to his office one day and told him in no uncertain terms that we could only have one winker on the team," says Kettley, whose own fame increased when a song written about him, John Kettley is a Weatherman, reached a dizzying No 21 in the charts in 1988.
- Winker (noun, singular): If both turn signals on a car are commonly called ‘blinkers’, using just one of the turn signals should be called a ‘winker’. on 06 Sep 2007 at 12: 20 pm Kristy Dempsey friendsied: the state of being overwhelmed with trying to keep up with the blogs, facebooks, and myspace sites of an ever growing list of online acquaintances on 06 Sep 2007 at 2: 00 pm Shawn
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