Definitions for blinks

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Spelling: [blingk]

IPA: /blɪŋk/

Blinks is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 85 anagrams from letters in blinks (biklns).

Definitions for blinks

noun

1. an act of blinking:
2. a gleam; glimmer:
3. Chiefly Scot. a glance or glimpse.
4. Meteorology. iceblink. snowblink.

Idioms

1. on the blink, not in proper working order; in need of repair:

verb (used with object)

1. to open and close (the eye or eyes), usually rapidly and repeatedly; wink:
2. to cause (something) to blink:
3. to ignore deliberately; evade; shirk.

verb (used without object)

1. to open and close the eye, especially involuntarily; wink rapidly and repeatedly.
2. to look with winking or half-shut eyes:
3. to be startled, surprised, or dismayed (usually followed by at):
4. to look evasively or with indifference; ignore (often followed by at):
5. to shine unsteadily, dimly, or intermittently; twinkle:

Origin of blinks

1250-1300; Middle English blinken (v.), variant of blenken to blench¹; cognate with Dutch, German blinken

Examples for blinks

And it may be who blinks rather than who shuts the government down that matters most.

CLAIRE: (blinks rapidly) But Francis, we have the Paws and Purrsonality pancake breakfast next week.

As for Ferdie, he just sits there and blinks, followin' 'em through his spare panes.

blinks, being typical, does not belong to a labor organization.

Ferdie blinks a couple of times as the picture forms on the screen.

However, fibs of this sort one blinks at where pretty girls are the criminals.

At least that seems to be their assumption if blinks can judge from their letters.

New York blinks in the face of uncertainty and bans hydraulic fracturing.

He was not of an imaginative or philosophic turn, like Mr. blinks.

Mrs. Bliss turns on him sort of dazed, and blinks them round eyes of hers.