blinker
[bling-ker]
- a device for flashing light signals.
- a light that flashes intermittently, especially one that serves as a traffic signal.
- either of two leather flaps on a bridle, to prevent a horse from seeing sideways; a blinder.
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- to put blinkers on.
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Origin of blinker
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Blinker got a pager and looked up the movements of Sunday steamboats.
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"Don't say that again," said Blinker in a tone that made her look at him in frank surprise.
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Blinker held Florence tightly until the boat had righted itself.
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She made Blinker sit down and sat by his side and put her hand in his.
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Blinker took pains to provide against the rejection of his application.
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blinker
- a flashing light for sending messages, as a warning device, etc, such as a direction indicator on a road vehicle
- (often plural) a slang word for eye 1
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- to provide (a horse) with blinkers
- to obscure with or as if with blinkers
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Word Origin and History for blinker
n.
1630s, "one who blinks," agent noun from blink (v.). As a type of horse eye screen to keep the animal looking straight ahead, from 1789. Slang meaning "the eye" is from 1816. Meaning "intermittent flashing light" is from 1923.
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