eyeball
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Is eyeball a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (informal) Surveillance.Examples: "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."informal
2. (marketing, in the plural) A readership or viewership.Examples: "We need compelling content for the new Web site so we can attract more eyeballs."; "When The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power debuted at the same time as House of the Dragon, much noise was made about which show attracted more eyeballs."in-plural
3. (CB radio, slang) A face-to-face meeting.Examples: "We had an eyeball last year."slang
4. (Caribbean) A favourite or pet; the apple of someone's eye.Caribbean
verb (English)
1. (transitive, informal) To gauge, estimate or judge by eye, rather than measuring precisely; to look or glance at.Examples: "A good cook can often just eyeball the correct quantities of ingredients."; "Each geometric construction must be exact; eyeballing it and getting close does not count."informaltransitive
2. (transitive, informal) To stare at intently.Examples: "Are you eyeballing my girl?"informaltransitive
3. (intransitive) To roll one's eyes.Examples: "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."intransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary