winking
verb
Meaning
- To close one's eyes in sleep.
- To close one's eyes.
- Usually followed by at: to look the other way, to turn a blind eye.
- To close one's eyes quickly and involuntarily; to blink.
- 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.)
- To gleam fitfully or intermitently; to twinkle; to flicker.
- The act of someone who winks.
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