Wiktionary

blinker

See also: Blinker

English

edit
 
Front and side turn signals working (#1)
 
US racehorses wearing "blinker hoods" (#2)
 
A black eye (#6)

Etymology

edit

From blink +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

edit

Noun

edit

blinker (plural blinkers)

  1. Anything that blinks.
    She was a frequent blinker, always on the verge of tears.
  2. (informal, Australia, Northern US) The turn signal of an automobile.
    Synonyms: (Australia, Britain, New Zealand) directional, directional signal, direction indicator, indicator, trafficator, turn indicator, (chiefly US) turn signal, (informal) winker
  4. (chiefly 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.
    Synonyms: blinder, winker
  5. Whatever obstructs sight or discernment.
    • 1732, Matthew Green, Grotto:
      This floor let not the vulgar tread, / Who worship only what they dread: / Nor bigots who but one way see, / Through blinkers of authority
  6. (rare) The eyelid.
  7. (slang) A black eye.
    • 2011, Mari Christie, Concrete Loyalties, page 419:
      The next morning, Jimmy came home with a fat lip and a black eye. Flory rushed over to tend to him. “Ain't nothin'. Just a blinker... had a fight with a guy. […]
  8. (cellular automata) In Conway's Game of Life, an arrangement of three cells in a row that switches between horizontal and vertical orientations in each generation.
    • 1992 August 13, David Bell, “Spaceships in Conway's Life (Part 1)”, in comp.theory.cell-automata‎[1] (Usenet):
      The following for example, doesn't work because the spark at the top is actually a blinker, and doesn't die. Without the blinker, this object is known as an OWSS (overweight spaceship).
    • 1994 May 13, Louis Howell, “Louis Howell's question of block clearing in life (simple solution)”, in comp.theory.cell-automata‎[2] (Usenet):
      3 live cells together can yield either a blinker or a block, so these will be the most common objects formed "out of the void".
    • 2008 January 8, Dave Greene, “Evolutionary factor in Conway's life”, in comp.theory.cell-automata‎[3] (Usenet):
      As Hickerson points out, a glider aimed at a faraway blinker or preblock has only 8 cells, but can be arranged to run as long as you want.
  9. (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.
    • 2023 January 31, @GreedyAlmighty, Twitter‎[4], archived from the original on 9 December 2023:
      When you just hit 2 back to back blinkers off the dab pen and you trying to hold your cough around people

Derived terms

edit

Translations

edit

Verb

edit

blinker (third-person singular simple present blinkers, present participle blinkering, simple past and past participle blinkered)

  1. (transitive) To put blinkers on.
    The farmer stopped to blinker his horse before riding into an area of heavy traffic.

See also

edit

Further reading

edit

Danish

edit

Verb

edit

blinker

  1. present of blinke

Norwegian Bokmål

edit

Noun

edit

blinker m

  1. indefinite plural of blink

Verb

edit

blinker

  1. present of blinke

Swedish

edit
 
Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia sv

Noun

edit

blinker c

  1. (automotive) (US) a turn signal, (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) an indicator (that blinks)
    Synonym: körriktningsvisare
  2. a blinker (device that blinks, especially an alerting device for deaf and hearing impaired)

Declension

edit
Declension of blinker
nominative genitive
singular indefinite blinker blinkers
definite blinkern blinkerns
plural indefinite blinkers, blinkrar blinkers, blinkrars
definite blinkersen, blinkrarna blinkersens, blinkrarnas

References

edit
Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=blinker&oldid=83014099"
  NODES
eth 1
see 6
twitter 1