blinker — English Dictionary

Noun

1. Anything that blinks.

   Examples

   She was a frequent blinker, always on the verge of tears.

2. The turn signal of an automobile.

   Usage

   • Australia
   • Northern-US
   • Informal

   Synonyms

   directional signaldirection indicatorindicatortrafficatorturn indicator

3. 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.

   Usage

   • in-plural

   Synonyms

   blinderwinker

4. Whatever obstructs sight or discernment.

   Examples

   This floor let not the vulgar tread, / Who worship only what they dread: / Nor bigots who but one way see, / Through blinkers of authority

5. The eyelid.

   Usage

   • Rare

6. A black eye.

   Usage

   • Slang

   Examples

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   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. […]

7. In Conway's Game of Life, an arrangement of three cells in a row that switches between horizontal and vertical orientations in each generation.

   Examples

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   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).

   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".

   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.

8. A situation where the light of a dab pen or vape starts blinking, which happens when the user takes an extremely long hit.

   Usage

   • Slang

   Examples

   a double blinker (hitting blinkers on two pens simultaneously)

   I just hit a blinker.

   More examples (1)

   When you just hit 2 back to back blinkers off the dab pen and you trying to hold your cough around people

Verb

1. To put blinkers on.

   Usage

   • Transitive

   Related words

   blinkers

   Examples

   The farmer stopped to blinker his horse before riding into an area of heavy traffic.

Noun

1. a light that flashes on and off; used as a signal or to send messages

   Synonyms

   flasher

   Broader terms

   lightlight source

2. a blinking light on a motor vehicle that indicates the direction in which the vehicle is about to turn

   Synonyms

   turn signalturn indicatortrafficator

   Broader terms

   visual signal

3. blind consisting of a leather eyepatch sewn to the side of the halter that prevents a horse from seeing something on either side

   Synonyms

   winkerblinder

   Broader terms

   blindscreen

Verb

1. put blinders on (a horse)

   Broader terms

   cover