squint

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Just squint your eyes, and you know he's dead right.

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Quick take

abnormal alignment of one or both eyes

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of squint gathered in one view.

noun

abnormal alignment of one or both eyes

noun

the act of squinting; looking with the eyes partly closed

verb

cross one's eyes as if in strabismus; "The children squinted so as to scare each other"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for squint.

noun

abnormal alignment of one or both eyes

noun

the act of squinting; looking with the eyes partly closed

verb

cross one's eyes as if in strabismus; "The children squinted so as to scare each other"

verb

be cross-eyed; have a squint or strabismus

verb

partly close one's eyes, as when hit by direct blinding light; "The driver squinted as the sun hit his windshield"

adjective

(used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy; "her eyes with their misted askance look"- Elizabeth Bowen; "sidelong glances"

See also: askance, askant, asquint, squint-eyed, squinty, sidelong

Example sentences

Just squint your eyes, and you know he's dead right.

It doesn't really fit but if you squint and look at it in the right light you can imagine that it does...

That is, I'm pretty sure when he says "it has to do with the way you squint and look at it", he's saying that there really is not much difference.

There's a beauty in the conceptual model, but you have to squint sideways to see it through the deeply hostile syntax.

A nice shiny silver cube that runs something that looks eerily like NeXTStep, if you squint at it, with a classic MacOS emulation bag on the side.

I want to be clear that not any of this is easy.\nI think as soon as you try it, your first attempts are going to be very blurry, squint inducing, and especially very dark.

What's different about the Google Prius versions is that they look almost practical, if you squint just a little bit, just minimized the sensors a little bit more it could even fit within a car's stylish exterior.