EYEBALL


Meaning of EYEBALL in English

I. noun

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

be drugged up to the eyeballs

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Are you so anxious to know what it feels like to have both eyeballs gouged out, one at a time?

Get the sport in front of as many eyeballs as possible.

I could see his diseased eyeballs glowing in the gloom.

I recall... the shocking distension and protrusion of the eyeballs of dead men and dead horses.

It appeared he also liked to skin the bodies of his victims and had a capability to swallow eyeballs.

It was rather like having a heated dagger thrust into the eyeball and twisted, then caustic soda rubbed in the wound.

Strangulation was all very well, but it played merry hell with the eyeballs.

Swear on the whites of your eyeballs.

II. verb

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

They eyeballed us suspiciously before speaking.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

But weights and measures inspectors are never satisfied to simply eyeball things.

Challenge him, eyeball him, intimidate him.

It took him six terms to get an elite suite, and other members already are eyeballing it.

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