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wink-winks

wink-winks is the third-person singular simple present indicative of wink-wink.

wink-winks is the plural of wink-wink.

Meaning of wink-wink

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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Questions about wink-winks

What is wink-winks the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Wink-winks is the third-person singular simple present indicative of wink-wink.

Words near wink-winks in the dictionary

  1. wink-a-peep
  2. wink-a-peeps
  3. wink-wink
  4. wink-winked
  5. wink-winking
  6. wink-winks
  7. Winkburn
  8. winked
  9. winked at
  10. Winkelman
  11. Winkelmann

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wink-winks (page history and authors); wink-wink (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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