ablink

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adjective

Blinking; filled or covered (with things that are blinking).

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Meanings

adjectiveablink (not comparable)
  1. not comparableBlinking; filled or covered (with things that are blinking).

    Emergency flashers ablink, I drove alongside the long queue to the gas pumps.

    1999, Burt Kearns, chapter 7, in Tabloid Baby, Nashville: Celebrity Books, page 94
    2 more examples

    […] out through that doorway came a long, low, yellow-and-brown beast, with eyes a-blink at the waning daylight […]

    1912, Saki, “Sredni Vashtar”, in The Chronicles of Clovis, London: John Lane, pages 100–101

    The fog lifted quite suddenly toward the evening—and there were those lean hulls, ablink with mail and spears […]

    1973, Poul Anderson, chapter 3, in Hrolf Kraki’s Saga, New York: Ballantine Books, page 49

Origin

From a- + blink.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

Balkin
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APA

ablink. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ablink

MLA

“ablink.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ablink. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “ablink,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ablink.

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