simple past tense and past participle of wink

(colloquial) To turn a blind eye (to something); to make an indirect reference to something unspoken, especially something indecent.

A surname.

(obsolete, intransitive) To close one's eyes in sleep. / (intransitive) To close one's eyes. / (intransitive) Usually followed by at: to look the other way, to turn a blind eye.

An act of winking (a blinking of only one eye), or a message sent by winking. / A brief period of sleep; especially forty winks. / A brief time; an instant. / The smallest possible amount.

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

(chiefly Britain) Synonym of periwinkle

present participle of wink

The act of someone who winks.

plural of winking