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winkle squeezes
plural of winkle squeeze
Van Winkle
Alternative form of Vanwinkle
winkle picker
Alternative spelling of winkle-picker
winkle pickers
plural of winkle picker
winkle-pickers
plural of winkle-picker
winkle-picker
(UK, Ireland) A person who harvests periwinkles (a kind of sea snail) to be eaten. / An implement used to extract the flesh of a periwinkle from its shell.
winkle out
(transitive, Britain) To acquire with difficulty, as by thorough scrutiny. / (transitive) To get (something or someone) out of an entrenched position.
( present singular third-person )
( participle present )
( participle past )
( past )
Rip Van Winkle
(fiction, US) A Dutch-American villager who falls asleep for 20 years and wakes up to a changed world, having missed the American Revolution; (by extension) someone or something stuck in the past.