wink
verb (used without object)
to close and open one eye quickly as a hint or signal or with some sly meaning (often followed byat ).
will wink
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future tenseof wink.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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Granted, there is not much chance that Lightning McQueen, a talking, grinning red hybrid between a Mazda Miata and a Dodge Viper from Pixar's animated film "Cars" will wink at you on the street.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2012
Peyton Place, charged with having a "petit bourgeois consumer mentality," will wink off Belgrade TV screens next month.
From Time Magazine Archive
Do you go into that hardware shop, and ask for a moose-trap, and see how the boys will wink to each other, and laugh at you.'
From Nature and Human Nature by Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Christian ministers will wink at it, when they do not bless it and approve it with a text.
From Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) by G. W. (George William) Foote
If it can be made to seem as you say, have no fear that I will wink at mere revenge, or make the machinery of justice an instrument of family feuds.
From The Iron Game A Tale of the War by Henry F. (Henry Francis) Keenan
