blinker
See also: Blinker
English
Front and side turn signals working (#1)
US racehorses wearing "blinker hoods" (#2)
A black eye (#5)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈblɪŋ.kə(ɹ)/
Audio (RP) (file)
- Rhymes: -ɪŋkə(ɹ)
Noun
blinker (plural blinkers)
- (informal, US, automotive) Anything that blinks, such as the turn signal of an automobile.
- Synonyms: (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) indicator, (chiefly US) turn signal, directional, directional signal, direction indicator, trafficator, turn indicator
- Eye shields attached to a hood for horses, to prevent them from seeing backwards and partially sideways.
- 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
- This floor let not the vulgar tread,
- 1732, Matthew Green, Grotto
- (rare) The eyelid.
- (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. […]
- 2011, Mari Christie, Concrete Loyalties (page 419)
- (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.
Derived terms
Translations
turn signal — see indicator
eye shield
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Verb
blinker (third-person singular simple present blinkers, present participle blinkering, simple past and past participle blinkered)
- (transitive) To put blinkers on.
- The farmer stopped to blinker his horse before riding into an area of heavy traffic.
See also
Further reading
- “blinker”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “blinker”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
- “blinker”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “blinker” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Danish
Swedish
Noun
blinker c
- (automotive) (US) a turn signal, (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) an indicator (that blinks)
- Synonym: körriktningsvisare
- a blinker (device that blinks, especially an alerting device for deaf and hearing impaired)
Declension
| Declension of blinker | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | blinker | blinkern | blinkers, blinkrar | blinkersen, blinkrarna |
| Genitive | blinkers | blinkerns | blinkers, blinkrars | blinkersens, blinkrarnas |
References
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