1
: one that blinks
especially
: a light that flashes off and on as a warning or a signal
2
a
b
: a cloth hood with shades projecting at the sides of the eye openings used on skittish racehorses
—usually used in plural
3
Examples of blinker in a Sentence
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A.w. Ohlheiser, Vox, 13 June 2024
Pedal pub bikes are equipped with headlights, brake lights, taillights, blinkers, brakes and emergency brakes.
—Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 16 Apr. 2024
Sara Holdren, Vulture, 16 June 2024
Flash flood warnings blinkered on and off all afternoon, and social media video showed floodwater so deep in Hallandale Beach that cars were floating.
—Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 13 June 2024
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Noun
Others found Overview answers instructing searchers to change their blinker fluid, referencing a joke that’s popular on car maintenance forums (blinker fluid does not exist).
—A.w. Ohlheiser, Vox, 13 June 2024
Pedal pub bikes are equipped with headlights, brake lights, taillights, blinkers, brakes and emergency brakes.
—Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 16 Apr. 2024
Verb
In the sensitive hands of director Lila Neugebauer and her top-notch cast, these people are complicated and they’re blinkered, monstrous and pitiable, trying and failing, not individually hateful and collectively matured in a slow cooker of unexamined bias and malice.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 16 June 2024
Flash flood warnings blinkered on and off all afternoon, and social media video showed floodwater so deep in Hallandale Beach that cars were floating.
—Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 13 June 2024
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“Blinker.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blinker. Accessed 7 Jul. 2024.
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