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eyelocks

eyelocks is the plural of eyelock.

eyelocks is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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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Questions about eyelocks

What is eyelocks the plural of?
Eyelocks is the plural of eyelock.

Words near eyelocks in the dictionary

  1. eyelobe
  2. eyelobes
  3. eyelock
  4. eyelocked
  5. eyelocking
  6. eyelocks
  7. eyely
  8. eyemark
  9. eyemarks
  10. eyemask
  11. eyemasks

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