Eyelock
noun, verb
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 An occurrence of mutual staring, where each person gazes fixedly into the other's eyes. countable, uncountable
"Finally, when the Sunday School classes marched into church for the last hour of the service, there would be added to the congregation young boys and girls, secured to their seats by the eyelocks of stern teachers."
Verb
- 1 To lock eyes (with).
"We eyelocked, looked really hard at eachother,^([sic]) each one thinking the other was the strange thing in the fishtank."
Example
More examples"Finally, when the Sunday School classes marched into church for the last hour of the service, there would be added to the congregation young boys and girls, secured to their seats by the eyelocks of stern teachers."
Etymology
From eye + lock.
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