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Eyeball
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- 1 The ball of the eye.
"Near-synonym: eye"
- 2 the ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye wordnet
- 3 An instance of eyeballing something.
"Give this report an eyeball, will you please?"
- 4 Surveillance. informal
"Intelligence work is necessarily limited in scope by the capacity of national surveillance systems. […] Ultimately, it is only when you have an 'eyeball' or the electronic equivalent on a suspect that you have a reasonable chance of a preventive intervention."
- 5 A readership or viewership. in-plural
"We need compelling content for the new Web site so we can attract more eyeballs."
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- 6 A face-to-face meeting. slang
"We had an eyeball last year."
- 7 A favourite or pet; the apple of someone's eye. Caribbean
- 1 To gauge, estimate or judge by eye, rather than measuring precisely; to look or glance at. informal, transitive
"A good cook can often just eyeball the correct quantities of ingredients."
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- 3 To stare at intently. informal, transitive
"Are you eyeballing my girl?"
- 4 To roll one's eyes. intransitive
"Guardiola strode on to the pitch at half-time to remonstrate with the Spanish referee, Antonio Mateu Lahoz, but went too far with his eyeballing and matador-like hand movements. He was “upstairs”, in the Colin Bell stand, to watch Liverpool’s second-half turnaround and a dismal seven days for City take another turn for the worse."
Etymology
From eye + ball. Compare Middle English balle off the eye, balle of þe eyȝe (“eyeball”, literally “ball of the eye”).
From eye + ball. Compare Middle English balle off the eye, balle of þe eyȝe (“eyeball”, literally “ball of the eye”).
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