Meaning of wink-wink | Babel Free

Definitions

To turn a blind eye (to something); to make an indirect reference to something unspoken, especially something indecent.

colloquial

Examples

“But instead of wink-winking at the law, I think the brave and righteous thing to do is to celebrate marijuana's true and most profound medicinal quality: It makes people feel good.”

“Though JFK was praised as a family man—married to the most glamorous first lady of the twentieth century—the press corps and the public wink-winked throughout his presidency.”

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