Meaning of winking in English | Powered by Free Dictionary API

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

• The act of someone who winks.