Usually means: Rapid opening and closing eyelids.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word blink:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. blink: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. blink: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. blink: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. blink: Collins English Dictionary
  5. blink: Vocabulary.com
  6. Blink, blink: Wordnik
  7. blink: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. blink: Wiktionary
  9. blink: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. blink: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. blink: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. blink: Dictionary.com
  13. blink: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. blink: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Blink (Boom Boom Satellites song), Blink (Cascada song), Blink (Doctor Who), Blink (Plumb album), Blink (SIP client), Blink (U.V.U.K. song), Blink (airline), Blink (band), Blink (book), Blink (browser engine), Blink (comics), Blink (company), Blink (disambiguation), Blink (film), Blink (layout engine), Blink (movie), Blink (novel), Blink (web engine), Blink: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Blink: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. blink: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. blink: Rhymezone
  19. blink: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. blink: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. blink: Free Dictionary
  22. blink: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. blink: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. blink: Dictionary/thesaurus

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. blink: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. blink: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. blink (v.): Cats
  2. BLINK: Acronym Finder
  3. blink: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. blink, blink, blink: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To close and reopen both eyes quickly.
verb:  (transitive) To close and reopen one's eyes to remove (something) from on or around the eyes.
verb:  To wink; to twinkle with, or as with, the eye.
verb:  To see with the eyes half shut, or indistinctly and with frequent winking, as a person with weak eyes.
verb:  To shine, especially with intermittent light; to twinkle; to flicker; to glimmer, as a lamp.
verb:  (Geordie, obsolete) To glance.
verb:  To flash on and off at regular intervals.
verb:  To flash headlights on a car at.
verb:  To send a signal with a lighting device.
verb:  (hyperbolic) To perform the smallest action that could solicit a response.
verb:  (in negative constructions) To have the slightest doubt, hesitation or remorse.
verb:  (transitive) To shut out of sight; to evade; to shirk.
verb:  To turn slightly sour, or blinky, as beer, milk, etc.
verb:  (science fiction, video games) To teleport, mostly for short distances.
noun:  The act of quickly closing both eyes and opening them again.
noun:  (figuratively) The time needed to close and reopen one's eyes.
noun:  (computing) A text formatting feature that causes text to disappear and reappear as a form of visual emphasis.
noun:  A glimpse or glance.
noun:  (UK, dialect) gleam; glimmer; sparkle
noun:  (nautical) The dazzling whiteness about the horizon caused by the reflection of light from fields of ice at sea; iceblink
noun:  (sports, in the plural) Boughs cast where deer are to pass, in order to turn or check them.
noun:  (video games) An ability that allows teleporting, mostly for short distances
noun:  (fandom slang) A fan of the South Korean girl group Blackpink.
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of Blink. [(fandom slang) A fan of the South Korean girl group Blackpink.]

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