From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englisheyeballeye‧ball1 /ˈaɪbɔːl $ -bɒːl/ noun [countable] 1 x-refthe round ball that forms the whole of your eye, including the part inside your head2 → eyeball to eyeball3 → up to the/your eyeballs in something4 → drugged/doped up to the eyeballs
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eyeball• Are you so anxious to know what it feels like to have both eyeballs gouged out, one at a time?• I could see his diseased eyeballs glowing in the gloom.• Get the sport in front of as many eyeballs as possible.• 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.• I recall... the shocking distension and protrusion of the eyeballs of dead men and dead horses.• Strangulation was all very well, but it played merry hell with the eyeballs.• Swear on the whites of your eyeballs.eyeballeyeball2 verb [transitive] informalLOOK AT to look directly and closely at something or someone They eyeballed each other suspiciously.→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpus
eyeball• Challenge him, eyeball him, intimidate him.• It took him six terms to get an elite suite, and other members already are eyeballing it.• But weights and measures inspectors are never satisfied to simply eyeball things.• They eyeballed us suspiciously before speaking. 