blink

verb blinks · blinking · blinked

1. intransitive To close and reopen both eyes quickly. The loser in the staring game is the person who blinks first.
2. intransitive, transitive To close and reopen one's eyes to remove (something) from on or around the eyes. She blinked her tears away.
3. intransitive To wink; to twinkle with, or as with, the eye. One eye was blinking, and one leg was lame.
4. intransitive To see with the eyes half shut, or indistinctly and with frequent winking, as a person with weak eyes. Show me thy chink, to blink through with mine eyne.
5. intransitive To shine, especially with intermittent light; to twinkle; to flicker; to glimmer, as a lamp. The dew was falling fast, the stars began to blink.
6. Geordie, intransitive, obsolete To glance. Now exile is over, I'll fly to the north, The home of my childhood, the place of my birth; O the transports of gladness that over me reign, To blink upon canny Newcastle again!
7. To flash on and off at regular intervals. The blinking text on the screen was distracting.
8. To flash headlights on a car at. An urban legend claims that gang members will attack anyone who blinks them.
9. To send a signal with a lighting device. Don't come to the door until I blink twice.
10. excessive To perform the smallest action that could solicit a response. All the waiters in your grand cafe / Leave their tables when you blink.
11. in negative constructions To have the slightest doubt, hesitation or remorse. The soldier shot the intruders without so much as blinking.
12. transitive To shut the eyes to (something); to evade, ignore. I have no wish to blink or extenuate the serious nature of the difficulty arising from this discrepancy of dates.
13. transitive To deceive; to hoodwink. "But I beg of you never more to commit her to my keeping, for I would sooner take charge of, and be accountable for, all the swine in Saxony than for one such woman, so many were the artifices and plots she devised to blink me."
14. To turn slightly sour, or blinky, as beer, milk, etc.
15. To teleport, mostly for short distances.

Similar: nictitate

noun blinks

1. countable, uncountable The act of quickly closing both eyes and opening them again.
2. countable, figuratively, uncountable The time needed to close and reopen one's eyes.
3. countable, uncountable A text formatting feature that causes text to disappear and reappear as a form of visual emphasis. I can think of no good reason to use blink because blinking text and images are annoying, they mark the creator as an amateur, and they have poor browser support.
4. countable, uncountable A glimpse or glance. This is the first blink that ever I had of him.
5. UK, countable, dialectal, uncountable Gleam; glimmer; sparkle. Not a blink of light was there.
6. countable, uncountable The dazzling whiteness about the horizon caused by the reflection of light from fields of ice at sea; iceblink.
7. countable, in plural, uncountable Boughs cast where deer are to pass, in order to turn or check them.
8. countable, uncountable An ability that allows teleporting, mostly for short distances.

noun Blinks · BLINK

1. slang A fan of the South Korean girl group Blackpink. The long-awaited solo from BLACKPINK's Jennie came along and was very well received by BLINKs everywhere.

noun BLINKs

1. Alternative letter-case form of Blink