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eye-lock

eye-lock is the alternative form of eyelock.

Meaning of eyelock

Noun

eyelock (countable and uncountable, plural eyelocks)

  1. An occurrence of mutual staring, where each person gazes fixedly into the other's eyes.
    • 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.1983, Harry Mark Petrakis, Reflections: A Writer's Life, a Writer's Work, page 21

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Forms of eye-lock

Noun
pluraleye-locks
Verb
third-person singular presenteye-locks
present participleeye-locking
past participleeye-locked
pasteye-locked

Questions about eye-lock

What is eye-lock the alternative form of?
Eye-lock is the alternative form of eyelock.

Words near eye-lock in the dictionary

  1. eye-hand coordination
  2. eye-hand coordinations
  3. eye-hole
  4. eye-lash
  5. eye-lashes
  6. eye-lock
  7. eye-locked
  8. eye-locking
  9. eye-locks
  10. eye-minded
  11. eye-mindedness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: eye-lock (page history and authors); eyelock (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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