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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

pluraleye locks

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 level
  2. eye levels
  3. eye lift
  4. eye lifts
  5. eye liner
  6. eye lock
  7. eye locks
  8. eye M.D.
  9. eye M.D.s
  10. eye mask
  11. eye masks

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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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