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wink
noun as in flutter, flick
Example Sentences
On record, “Anything For Love” gets a knowing wink with in-studio jibing between Lipa and her producers; here she played it straight as a lofty piano ballad for the back seats on a floating riser.
His chapters end with a wink as often as a thunderclap.
“Someone is cooking ... again,” chef and fan Gordon Ramsay commented on one post, adding a winking emoji to capture his excitement.
They adopted a Daft Punk-ish distance on “Electronic Performers,” touting how “MIDI clocks ring in my mind ... We need envelope filters to say how we feel,” but they didn’t really need that wink and nudge.
The line is supposed to be a little funny, a wink at the fashion industry’s love of effusive word salad descriptions that are only conveyed in the actual garments about half the time.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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