transcription, транскрипция: [ aɪbɔ:l ]
( eyeballs, eyeballing, eyeballed)
1.
Your eyeballs are your whole eyes, rather than just the part which can be seen between your eyelids.
N-COUNT
2.
If you eyeball someone or something, you stare at them. ( INFORMAL )
The guard eyeballed him pretty hard despite his pass.
VERB : V n
3.
If you are eyeball to eyeball with someone, you are in their presence and involved in a meeting, dispute, or contest with them. You can also talk about having an eyeball to eyeball meeting or confrontation. ( INFORMAL )
...proposals that the two armies end their eyeball to eyeball confrontation and withdraw.
= face to face
PHRASE : PHR after v , v-link PHR , PHR n , oft PHR with n
4.
You use up to the eyeballs to emphasize that someone is in an undesirable state to a very great degree. ( INFORMAL )
He is out of a job and up to his eyeballs in debt.
PHRASE : usu v-link PHR , adj / -ed PHR , PHR in n [ emphasis ]