winks

Noun (1)

wink (plural winks)

1. An act of winking (a blinking of only one eye), or a message sent by winking.

   Synonyms:

   😉, ;), ;-)

2. A brief period of sleep; especially forty winks.
   • I couldn't bear to leave him where he is. I shouldn't sleep a wink for thinking of him.1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 25”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC
3. A brief time; an instant.
4. The smallest possible amount.
   • It’s many’s the time I shot the selfsame rifiie before, and it’s many ’s the time after, but niver a wink of the same have I seen. 'T was the sight of a lifetime.1899, Jack London, "The Men of Forty-Nine: 'Malemute Kid" Deals with a Duel," Overland Monthly, Vol. XXXIII, second series
5. A subtle allusion.
   • The film includes a wink to wartime rationing.

Noun (2)

wink (plural winks)

1. (tiddlywinks) Synonym of tiddlywink (“small disc used in the game of tiddlywinks”).

   Synonyms:

   tiddlywink

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