How to pronounce “wink”

Meaning

• [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 intermittently; to twinkle; to flicker.
• [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.

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