| blink |  | |
| 1. v. (intransitive) To close and reopen both eyes quickly. | |
| The loser in the staring game is the person who blinks first. | |
| 2. v. To close and reopen one's eyes to remove (something) from on or around the eyes. | |
| She blinked her tears away. | |
| 3. v. To wink; to twinkle with, or as with, the eye. | |
| 4. v. To see with the eyes half shut, or indistinctly and with frequent winking, as a person with weak eyes. | |
| 5. v. To shine, especially with intermittent light; to twinkle; to flicker; to glimmer, as a lamp. | |
| 6. v. To flash on and off at regular intervals. | |
| The blinking text on the screen was distracting. | |
| 7. v. To flash headlights on a car at. | |
| An urban legend claims that gang members will attack anyone who blinks them. | |
| 8. v. To send a signal with a lighting device. | |
| Don't come to the door until I blink twice. | |
| 9. v. (hyperbole) To perform the smallest action that could solicit a response. | |
| 10. v. To shut out of sight; to evade; to shirk. | |
| to blink the question | |
| 11. v. (Scotland) To trick; to deceive. | |
| 12. v. To turn slightly sour, or blinky, as beer, milk, etc. | |
| 13. v. (video games) To teleport, mostly for short distances | |
| 14. subst. The act of very quickly closing both eyes and opening them again. | |
| 15. subst. (figuratively) The time needed to close and reopen one's eyes. | |
| 16. subst. (computing) A text formatting feature that causes text to disappear and reappear as a form of visual emphasis. | |
| 17. subst. A glimpse or glance. | |
| 18. subst. (dialect) gleam; glimmer; sparkle | |
| 19. subst. (nautical) The dazzling whiteness about the horizon caused by the reflection of light from fields of ice at sea; iceblink | |
| 20. subst. (sports) Boughs cast where deer are to pass, in order to turn or check them. | |
| 21. subst. (video games) An ability that allows teleporting, mostly for short distances | |
