blinkers
Britishplural noun
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Usual US and Canadian word: blinders. (sometimes singular) leather sidepieces attached to a horse's bridle to prevent sideways vision
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a slang word for goggle
Example Sentences
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Blinkers often help improve focus by screening distractions.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 6, 2019
Blinkers are used to keep a horse focused and not be distracted by their surroundings.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2016
Owned by Blinkers On Racing Stable, Strauss, Aurelio, Butler, Coons, Lapso et al, the bay filly went three-for-three last year, all at Hollywood Park.
From Newsweek • Aug. 6, 2011
If we cannot outshoot Blinkers, as you call him, we shall take our medicine like men.
From The Battleship Boys at Sea Two Apprentices in Uncle Sam's Navy by Patchin, Frank Gee
It sounded like Blinkers, or, even more nearly, on his repeating it, like Rasmussen.
From Mr. Bingle by McCutcheon, George Barr
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