tip the wink

verb

To give (somebody) a hint or suggestion, as if by a wink; to ask or tell surreptitiously.

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Meanings

verbtip the wink (third-person singular simple present tips the wink, present participle tipping the wink, simple past and past participle tipped the wink)

present singular third person tips the wink · participle present tipping the wink · participle past tipped the wink · past tipped the wink

  1. ambitransitivedatedidiomaticslangTo give (somebody) a hint or suggestion, as if by a wink; to ask or tell surreptitiously.

    Sudden, she storms! she raves! You tip the wink But spare your censure; Silia does not drink

    a. 1743, Alexander Pope, Epistle to a Lady
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