"tip the wink" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-tip the wink.ogg Forms: tips the wink [present, singular, third-person], tipping the wink [participle, present], tipped the wink [participle, past], tipped the wink [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} tip the wink (third-person singular simple present tips the wink, present participle tipping the wink, simple past and past participle tipped the wink)
  1. (slang, ambitransitive, dated, idiomatic) To give (somebody) a hint or suggestion, as if by a wink; to ask or tell surreptitiously. Tags: ambitransitive, dated, idiomatic, slang
    Sense id: en-tip_the_wink-en-verb-ziTjR2BY Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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