wink-winking

Verb

wink-wink (third-person singular simple present wink-winks, present participle wink-winking, simple past and past participle wink-winked)

1. (colloquial, intransitive) To turn a blind eye to something; to make an indirect reference to something unspoken, especially something indecent.
   • But instead of wink-winking at the law, I think the brave and righteous thing to do is to celebrate marijuana's true and most profound medicinal quality: It makes people feel good.2010, Michael Konik, Reefer Gladness, page 49

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