Meaning

8 senses
  1. Anything that blinks.

    She was a frequent blinker, always on the verge of tears.

  2. (Australia, Northern US, informal)The turn signal of an automobile.

  3. (in the plural)A shield attached to the bridle of a horse or other domesticated animal to prevent it from seeing things behind it and to its side.

    Scheuklappe

    шо́рыšóry, нагла́зник m usually plural: нагла́зникиnagláznik

    шо́риšóry

    blind consisting of a leather eyepatch sewn to the side of the halter that prevents a horse from seeing something on either side

  4. Whatever obstructs sight or discernment.

  5. (rare)The eyelid.

    ве́коvéko

  6. (slang)A black eye.

  7. In Conway's Game of Life, an arrangement of three cells in a row that switches between horizontal and vertical orientations in each generation.

  8. (slang)A situation where the light of a dab pen or vape starts blinking, which happens when the user takes an extremely long hit.

    a double blinker (hitting blinkers on two pens simultaneously)

    I just hit a blinker.

Examples

27 sentences
  1. Tom turned on the right blinker.

    Том увімкнув правий сигнал повороту.

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  2. Tom turned on his blinker.

    Том включив сигнал повороту.

    deTom schaltete den Blinker ein.

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  3. Tom turned his blinker on.

    Том включив сигнал повороту.

    deTom schaltete den Blinker ein.

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  4. Tom put on his right blinker.

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  5. Put on your blinker.

    deSchalte den Blinker ein!

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Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
eye shield:
Русский
By meaning 2
eye shield:
eyelid:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
eye shield:

Forms

plural: blinkers
Singularblinker
Pluralblinkers

regular

Synonyms

10 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a light that flashes on and off; used as a signal or to send messages:flasher
  • a blinking light on a motor vehicle that indicates the direction in which the vehicle is about to turn:turn signalturn indicatortrafficator
  • blind consisting of a leather eyepatch sewn to the side of the halter that prevents a horse from seeing something on either side:winkerblinder

Word family

4 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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