verb Usually followed by at: to look the other way, to turn a blind eye.
verb To close one's eyes quickly and involuntarily; to blink.
verb To blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion, usually with an implication of conspiracy. (When transitive, the object may be the eye being winked, or the message being conveyed.)
He winked at me. She winked her eye. He winked his assent.
verb To gleam fitfully or intermittently; to twinkle; to flicker.
noun An act of winking (a blinking of only one eye), or a message sent by winking.
noun A brief period of sleep; especially forty winks.