tip the wink
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[edit]tip the wink (third-person singular simple present tips the wink, present participle tipping the wink, simple past and past participle tipped the wink)
- (slang, transitive, intransitive, dated, idiomatic) To give (somebody) a hint or suggestion, as if by a wink; to ask or tell surreptitiously.
- a. 1743, Alexander Pope, Epistle to a Lady:
- Sudden, she storms! she raves! You tip the wink
But spare your censure; Silia does not drink