wink

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Just as you're about to cancel though, you receive a hopeful "nudge" or a "wink" from someone.

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Quick take

a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat); "if I had the chance I'd do it in a flash"

Meaning at a glance

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

noun

a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat); "if I had the chance I'd do it in a flash"

noun

closing one eye quickly as a signal

noun

a reflex that closes and opens the eyes rapidly

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for wink.

noun

a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat); "if I had the chance I'd do it in a flash"

noun

closing one eye quickly as a signal

noun

a reflex that closes and opens the eyes rapidly

See also: blink, blinking, winking, nictitation, nictation

verb

signal by winking; "She winked at him"

verb

gleam or glow intermittently; "The lights were flashing"

verb

briefly shut the eyes; "The TV announcer never seems to blink"

verb

force to go away by blinking; "blink away tears"

Example sentences

Just as you're about to cancel though, you receive a hopeful "nudge" or a "wink" from someone.

""Well", says Amazon, with a wink, "you might not be the only meeting we have lined up today in the valley.

Is anyone else somewhat annoyed by the wink-and-a-node style this post is written in?

There was that wink and nudge: of course you would be using your own clinical judgment about the effectiveness of the drug being pushed.

Bringing Ad Block into the core would violate the wink, wink, nudge, nudge arrangement between Mozilla and their default search provider Google.

He explained that he uses the wink-to-take-a-picture feature so much that a few days ago he was not wearing his Google Glass and was confused when he blinked his eye and nothing happened.

Honor his example of service, accomplishment and modesty, and the next time you walk outside on a clear night and see the moon smiling down at you, think of Neil Armstrong and give him a wink.

Maybe the kind of dumb lockerroom overshare bluster amongst the employees and managers of sexually harassing companies and departments lends itself to admitting incriminating things like that to other men with a wink wink nudge nudge.

There's been a lot of wink-wink nudge-nudge over the years to the effect that Fujifilm was subsidized by the Japanese government; to what extent this was the favorable tax deals Kodak also got and to what extent it was real was and is hard to assess, but it is certainly the case that Fuji was not burdened by the antitrust pressure that led Kodak to divest itself of its camera-making arm in the middle of the 20th century.