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eye-ball

eye-ball is the obsolete spelling of eyeball.

Meaning of eyeball

Noun

eyeball (plural eyeballs)

  1. The ball of the eye.
    • Near-synonym: eye
  2. An instance of eyeballing something.
    • Give this report an eyeball, will you please?
  3. (informal) Surveillance.
    • 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.2016, Marie Breen-Smyth, The Ashgate Research Companion to Political Violence, page 384
  4. (in plural) A readership or viewership.
    • We need compelling content for the new Web site so we can attract more eyeballs.
  5. (slang, CB radio) A face-to-face meeting.
    • We had an eyeball last year.
  6. (Caribbean) A favourite or pet; the apple of someone's eye.

See all 9 meanings of eyeball

Forms of eye-ball

pluraleye-balls

Questions about eye-ball

What is eye-ball the obsolete spelling of?
Eye-ball is the obsolete spelling of eyeball.

Words near eye-ball in the dictionary

  1. Eye, Moreton and Ashton
  2. eye-ache
  3. eye-aches
  4. eye-apple
  5. eye-apples
  6. eye-ball
  7. eye-balls
  8. eye-beam
  9. eye-brow
  10. eye-brows
  11. eye-catcher

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Adapted from Wiktionary: eye-ball (page history and authors); eyeball (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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