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Winkle may refer to:
Snails
- Common periwinkle, an edible marine intertidal species found in Europe and North America
- Any species within the family Littorinidae, the winkles, small intertidal sea snails
- Some edible species of nerites which are also small aquatic snails, some marine, some freshwater
- Sometimes applied to certain land species that have an operculum, such as Pomatias elegans, the land winkle
Places
- Winkle, Illinois, United States, an unincorporated community
- East Danville, Ohio, United States, an unincorporated community also known as Winkle
- Winkle Islands, County Antrim, Northern Ireland
- Winkle Island (Antarctica)
Other uses
- nickname of Eric Brown (pilot) (1919-2016), British Royal Navy officer and test pilot
- Nathaniel Winkle, a character in the novel The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
- Winkle squeeze, a play in the card game of contract bridge
See also
- Van Winkle, a surname and a list of people with the surname
- Bobby Winkles (born 1930), American former Major League Baseball coach and manager and college head coach
- Winkel (disambiguation)
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