0 present participle of wink --
1 to close one eye for a short time as a way of greeting someone or showing friendliness, sexual interest, etc., or of showing that you are not serious about something you have said: --
Many of them have been forced into casual employment and, effectively, companies are nodding and winking at such people who also claim benefit.
I am connected with the distributive trade, and there, although an employer need not tell an employee, a good deal is often done by winking.
Everything seemed to be possible to people who spent without winking £7,000,000 a day.
I am glad to see that he is winking.
Is this flashing or winking light to be on in the daytime in ordinary weather, or only at night and in bad weather?
We see disabled people doing that; that is, winking at computers and having them open doors, operate typewriters and so forth.
The winking rear indicator lights should be on a completely different circuit from the rear lights.
For instance, there are the lights, the trafficators, or winking lights, or indicators, or whatever the name may be.
