eyeballing
eyeballing is the present participle and gerund of eyeball.
Noun
eyeballing (countable and uncountable, plural eyeballings)
- An act of staring or ogling.
- When he did eventually return to work, those employees he'd identified as the ringleaders of the unionisation bid found themselves getting unexpectedly called into his office at odd hours of the day for intimidatory eyeballings.2010, Daniel Raven, Julie Burchill, Made In Brighton
- The practice of pouring vodka through the eye socket, falsely claimed to increase the rate of alcohol absorption.
Meaning of eyeball
Verb
eyeball (third-person singular simple present eyeballs, present participle eyeballing, simple past and past participle eyeballed)
- To gauge, estimate or judge by eye, rather than measuring precisely; to look or glance at.
- A good cook can often just eyeball the correct quantities of ingredients.
- Synonyms:
- eye up
- To stare at intently.
- Are you eyeballing my girl?
- Synonyms:
- eye up
- To roll one's eyes.
- 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...2018 April 10, Daniel Taylor, “Liverpool go through after Mohamed Salah stops Manchester City fightback”, in The Guardian (London), archived from the original on 16 Jul 2019
Forms of eyeballing
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Questions about eyeballing
- What does eyeballing mean?
- Eyeballing means an act of staring or ogling.
- What is eyeballing the present participle and gerund of?
- Eyeballing is the present participle and gerund of eyeball.
- What part of speech is eyeballing?
- Eyeballing is a noun.
- What is the plural of eyeballing?
- The plural of eyeballing is eyeballings.
Words near eyeballing in the dictionary
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