Meaning of wink in English | Powered by Free Dictionary API

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.

  Example: The film includes a wink to wartime rationing.

verb

• 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.)

  Example: He winked at me. She winked her eye. He winked his assent.

• To gleam fitfully or intermitently; to twinkle; to flicker.

noun

• A disc used in the game of tiddlywinks.

noun

• (Chiefly British) Periwinkle.