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blinker
English
Etymology
blink +? -er
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?bl??k?(?)/
- Rhymes: -??k?(r)
Noun
blinker (plural blinkers)
- (informal, US, automotive) Anything that blinks, such as the turn signal of an automobile.
- Eye shields attached to a hood for horses, to prevent them from seeing backwards and partially sideways.
- Whatever obstructs sight or discernment.
- 1732, Matthew Green, Grotto
- This floor let not the vulgar tread,
Who worship only what they dread:
Nor bigots who but one way see,
Through blinkers of authority
- This floor let not the vulgar tread,
- 1732, Matthew Green, Grotto
- (rare) The eyelid.
- (slang) A black eye.
- 2011, Mari Christie, Concrete Loyalties (page 419)
- The next morning, Jimmy came home with a fat lip and a black eye. Flory rushed over to tend to him. “Ain't nothin'. Just a blinker... had a fight with a guy. […]
- 2011, Mari Christie, Concrete Loyalties (page 419)
- (cellular automata) In Conway's Game of Life, an arrangement of three cells in a row that switches between horizontal and vertical orientations in each generation.
Synonyms
- (turn signal of an automobile): directional, directional signal, indicator, trafficator, turn indicator, turn signal
- (eye shield for a horse): blinder, winker
Translations
Verb
blinker (third-person singular simple present blinkers, present participle blinkering, simple past and past participle blinkered)
- (transitive) To put blinkers on.
- The farmer stopped to blinker his horse before riding into an area of heavy traffic.
See also
- blinkers
Danish
Verb
blinker
- present of blinke
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
blinker m
- indefinite plural of blink
Verb
blinker
- present of blinke
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