blinker

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Anything that blinks.

   • She was a frequent blinker, always on the verge of tears.
2. 2

   The turn signal of an automobile.

3. 3

   A shield attached to the bridle of a horse or other domesticated animal to prevent it…

   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.

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   1. 4

      Whatever obstructs sight or discernment.

      • This floor let not the vulgar tread, / Who worship only what they dread: / Nor bigots who but one way see, / Through blinkers of authority
   2. 5

      The eyelid.

   3. 6

      A black eye.

      • 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. […]
   4. 7

      In Conway's Game of Life, an arrangement of three cells in a row that switches between…

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

      • 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.
   5. 8

      A situation where the light of a dab pen or vape starts blinking, which happens when the…

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

      • 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
   6. 9

      To put blinkers on.

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

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