eyelock
eyelock noun: an occurrence of mutual staring, where each person gazes fixedly into the other's eyes.
Noun
eyelock (countable and uncountable, plural eyelocks)
- 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
- The first one to break the eyelock by looking away, dropping the eyes, or closing the eyes was the loser.1988, Larry A. Samovar, Richard E. Porter, Intercultural communication: a reader, page 295
Verb
eyelock (third-person singular simple present eyelocks, present participle eyelocking, simple past and past participle eyelocked)
- To lock eyes (with).
- We eyelocked, looked really hard at eachother,^([sic]) each one thinking the other was the strange thing in the fishtank.1999, Gale Zoë Garnett, Visible amazement: a novel, page 106
- Giant Kurt Stregner pauses, sneers as he eyelocks Joe.2012, Iceberg Slim, Doom Fox
Examples of eyelock in a sentence
- But this girl in the flimsy dress, a girl who couldn't seem to break eyelock with the Greek god standing behind her?2013, Joan Kilby, Gentlemen Prefer Nerds:
- We both looked away so fast that I had to wonder if we'd eyelocked at all.2014, Liz Fichera, Played:
Forms of eyelock
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | eyelocks |
| alternative form | eye lock |
| alternative form | eye-lock |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | eyelocks |
| present participle | eyelocking |
| past participle | eyelocked |
| past | eyelocked |
Origin of eyelock
From eye + lock.
Questions about eyelock
- What does eyelock mean?
- Eyelock means an occurrence of mutual staring, where each person gazes fixedly into the other's eyes.
- How do you use eyelock in a sentence?
- But this girl in the flimsy dress, a girl who couldn't seem to break eyelock with the Greek god standing behind her?
- What part of speech is eyelock?
- Eyelock can be a noun or a verb.
- What is the plural of eyelock?
- The plural of eyelock is eyelocks.
Words near eyelock in the dictionary
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