Cryptic crossword clue
Fellow in kitchen grabs a little sleep 4

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word WINK

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Buddy explains!

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What does WINK mean?

WINK noun
  1. An act of winking (a blinking of only one eye), or a message sent by winking.
  2. A brief period of sleep; especially forty winks.
  3. A brief time; an instant.
  4. The smallest possible amount.
  5. A subtle allusion.
WINK verb
  1. To close one's eyes in sleep.
  2. To close one's eyes.
  3. Usually followed by at: to look the other way, to turn a blind eye.
  4. To close one's eyes quickly and involuntarily; to blink.
  5. To blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion, usually with an implication of conspiracy. (When transitive, the object may be the eye being winked, or the message being conveyed.)
  6. To gleam fitfully or intermitently; to twinkle; to flicker.
WINK noun
  1. A disc used in the game of tiddlywinks.
WINK noun
  1. (Chiefly British) Periwinkle.

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