Usually means: Straining eyes to see clearer.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. squints: Merriam-Webster
  2. squints: Collins English Dictionary
  3. squints: Vocabulary.com
  4. Squints, squints: Wordnik
  5. squints: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. squints: Wiktionary
  7. squints: Dictionary.com
  8. squints: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. squints: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. squints: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. squints: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. squints: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. squints: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Squints: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (squint)

verb:  (intransitive) To look with the eyes partly closed, as in bright sunlight, or as a threatening expression.
verb:  (intransitive) To look or glance sideways.
verb:  (intransitive) To look with, or have eyes that are turned in different directions; to suffer from strabismus.
verb:  (intransitive, figurative) To have an indirect bearing, reference, or implication; to have an allusion to, or inclination towards, something.
verb:  (intransitive, Scotland) To be not quite straight, off-centred; to deviate from a true line; to run obliquely.
verb:  (transitive) To turn to an oblique position; to direct obliquely.
noun:  An expression in which the eyes are partly closed.
noun:  The look of eyes which are turned in different directions, as in strabismus.
noun:  A quick or sideways glance.
noun:  (informal) A short look; a peep.
noun:  A hagioscope.
noun:  (radio transmission) The angle by which the transmission signal is offset from the normal of a phased array antenna.
noun:  (architecture) An opening, often arched, through an internal wall of a church, providing an oblique view of the altar.
adjective:  Looking obliquely; having the vision distorted.
adjective:  (Scotland) askew, not level
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