blink

verb15

1. •
   To close and reopen both eyes quickly.

   • The loser in the staring game is the person who blinks first.
2. •
   To close and reopen one's eyes to remove (something) from on or around the eyes.

   • She blinked her tears away.
3. •
   To wink; to twinkle with, or as with, the eye.

   • One eye was blinking, and one leg was lame. — 1715
4. •
   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. — 1800
5. •
   To flash on and off at regular intervals.

   • The blinking text on the screen was distracting.
6. •
   To have the slightest doubt, hesitation or remorse.

   • The soldier shot the intruders without so much as blinking.
7. •
   To flash headlights on a car at.

   • An urban legend claims that gang members will attack anyone who blinks them.
8. •
   To send a signal with a lighting device.

   • Don't come to the door until I blink twice.
9. •
   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. — 1900
10. •
    To teleport, mostly for short distances.
11. •
    To perform the smallest action that could solicit a response.

    • All the waiters in your grand cafe / Leave their tables when you blink. — 1980
12. •
    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. — 1595
13. •
    To deceive; to hoodwink.
14. •
    To turn slightly sour, or blinky, as beer, milk, etc.
15. •
    (no longer used) 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! — 1850

noun8

1. •
   The act of quickly closing both eyes and opening them again.
2. •
   (figurative) The time needed to close and reopen one's eyes.
3. •
   A glimpse or glance.

   • This is the first blink that ever I had of him. — 1612
4. •
   An ability that allows teleporting, mostly for short distances
5. •
   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. — 2007
6. •
   The dazzling whiteness about the horizon caused by the reflection of light from fields of ice at sea; iceblink
7. •
   (dialect, UK) gleam; glimmer; sparkle

   • Not a blink of light was there. — 1835
8. •
   [in the plural] Boughs cast where deer are to pass, in order to turn or check them.

noun1

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. — 2018