Definition of "squint"

squint

/skwɪnt/

verb
third-person singular simple present squints, present participle squinting, simple past and past participle squinted
1. (intransitive) To look with the eyes partly closed, as in bright sunlight, or as a threatening expression.
  Quotations
  “A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; […]. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.
  1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company
2. (intransitive) To look or glance sideways.
3. (intransitive) To look with, or have eyes that are turned in different directions; to suffer from strabismus.
4. (intransitive, figurative) To have an indirect bearing, reference, or implication; to have an allusion to, or inclination towards, something.
  Quotations
  Yet if the following sentence means anything, it is a squinting toward hypnotism.
  1887, The Forum
5. (intransitive, Scotland) To be not quite straight, off-centred; to deviate from a true line; to run obliquely.
6. (transitive) To turn to an oblique position; to direct obliquely.
noun
plural squints
1. An expression in which the eyes are partly closed.
2. The look of eyes which are turned in different directions, as in strabismus.
3. A quick or sideways glance.
4. (informal) A short look; a peep.
  Quotations
  —And here she is, says Alf, that was giggling over the Police Gazette with Terry on the counter, in all her warpaint.—Give us a squint at her, says I.
  1922 February, James Joyce, “Episode 12: The Cyclops”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […]
5. A hagioscope.
6. (radio transmission) The angle by which the transmission signal is offset from the normal of a phased array antenna.
adjective
1. Looking obliquely; having the vision distorted.
2. (Scotland) askew, not level