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View synonyms for blinkers

blinkers

/ ˈblɪŋkəz /

plural noun

  1. sometimes singular leather sidepieces attached to a horse's bridle to prevent sideways vision Usual US and Canadian wordblinders
  2. See goggle
    a slang word for goggle


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The central theme of my book is that a group of people had ideological blinkers.

Overhead the yardarm blinkers were signaling, and directly over Sara Lee's head a great white searchlight swept the water ahead.

Immediately over Lord Wharncliffe's head was suspended a pair of horse's blinkers.

He wished that some accident could have hemmed in his eyes between inexorable blinkers, and sped him on in a channel ever so worn.

Do you know, my dear father refused a peerage because he felt it meant putting blinkers on his best newspaper.

A man intent on action is like a horse in blinkers, he goes straight forward, seeing only the road ahead.

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