Blinker

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

11 more languages

العربيةالضّوء الوامض

Българскиклепа́ч

Češtinablinkrklapka

Ελληνικάβλέφαρο

Suomisilmäluomivilkku

Bahasa Indonesiatuntun

日本語ウインカー

Polskimigaczpowieka

Portuguêspálpebra

Русскийвеко

Svenskaögonlockskygglapp

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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