Blinker

Quick meaning: Blinker is a noun meaning Anything that blinks.

Meaning

Anything that blinks.

More Meanings

1. (informal, Australia, Northern US) The turn signal of an automobile.
2. Whatever obstructs sight or discernment.
3. (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.
4. (rare) The eyelid.
5. (slang) A black eye.
6. (slang) A situation where the light of a dab pen or vape starts blinking, which happens when the user takes an extremely long hit.
7. (chiefly in the plural) 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.

Example Sentences

I just hit a blinker.

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

a double blinker (hitting blinkers on two pens simultaneously)

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".

Word Forms

• blinkers
• blinkering
• blinkered

Synonyms for blinker

Depending on context, synonyms include directional, indicator, trafficator, winker, blinder.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include trafficator, winker, blinder, eyelid, blink, twinkling.

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