Usually means: Quick, subtle closing of eye.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word wink:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. wink: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. wink: Merriam-Webster
  3. wink: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. wink: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. wink: Collins English Dictionary
  6. wink: Vocabulary.com
  7. Wink, wink: Wordnik
  8. wink: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. wink: Wiktionary
  10. wink: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. wink: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. wink: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. WINK: Dictionary.com
  14. wink (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. wink: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. The Wink (Seinfeld), The Wink (Seinfeld episode), Wink (Japanese band), Wink (Martian crater), Wink (Marvel Comics), Wink (South Korean band), Wink (South Korean group), Wink (animated file), Wink (band), Wink (disambiguation), Wink (duo), Wink (manhwa), Wink (platform), Wink (soft drink), Wink (song), Wink (tutorial software), Wink: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Wink: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. wink: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. wink: Rhymezone
  20. Wink: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. wink: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. wink: FreeDictionary.org
  23. wink: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. wink: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wink: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. wink: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. wink: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. WINK: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. wink: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Wink (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. wink, wink: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. wink: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See winked as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (obsolete, intransitive) To close one's eyes in sleep.
verb:  (intransitive) To close one's eyes.
verb:  (intransitive) Usually followed by at: to look the other way, to turn a blind eye.
verb:  (intransitive) To close one's eyes quickly and involuntarily; to blink.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) 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.)
verb:  (intransitive) To gleam fitfully or intermitently; to twinkle; to flicker.
noun:  An act of winking (a blinking of only one eye), or a message sent by winking.
noun:  A brief period of sleep; especially forty winks.
noun:  A brief time; an instant.
noun:  The smallest possible amount.
noun:  A subtle allusion.
noun:  (tiddlywinks) Synonym of tiddlywink (“small disc used in the game of tiddlywinks”)
noun:  (chiefly British, slang) Synonym of periwinkle (“type of mollusk”)

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