Meaning of Blinker | Babel Free

Definitions

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

Equivalents

Examples

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

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

“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. […]”

“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.”

“a double blinker (hitting blinkers on two pens simultaneously)”

“I just hit a blinker.”

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

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