wink

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Verb

1. To close one's eyes in sleep.
2. To close one's eyes.
3. Usually followed by at: to look the other way, to turn a blind eye.
4. To close one's eyes quickly and involuntarily; to blink.
5. 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.)
   • He winked at me. She winked her eye. He winked his assent.
6. To gleam fitfully or intermittently; to twinkle; to flicker.

Noun

1. An act of winking (a blinking of only one eye), or a message sent by winking.
2. A brief period of sleep; especially forty winks.
3. A brief time; an instant.
4. The smallest possible amount.
5. A subtle allusion.
   • The film includes a wink to wartime rationing.

Noun

1. Synonym of tiddlywink (“small disc used in the game of tiddlywinks”).

Noun

1. Synonym of periwinkle (“type of mollusk”).

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