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The correct spelling is winks.
How to pronounce winks
noun
Say it like: Win-ks
The correct spelling is winks. An act of winking (a blinking of only one eye), or a message sent by winking. For example: "The film includes a wink to wartime rationing."
Usage Examples
“The film includes a wink to wartime rationing.”
“He winked at me. She winked her eye. He winked his assent.”
Meanings
noun
- 1.An act of winking (a blinking of only one eye), or a message sent by winking.
- 2.A brief period of sleep; especially forty winks.
- 3.A brief time; an instant.
- 4.The smallest possible amount.
- 5.A subtle allusion.
verb
- 1.To close one's eyes in sleep.
- 2.To close one's eyes.
- 3.Usually followed by at: to look the other way, to turn a blind eye.
- 4.To close one's eyes quickly and involuntarily; to blink.
- 5.To blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion, usually with an implication of conspiracy. (When transitive, the object may be the eye being winked, or the message being conveyed.)
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