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eyes right

/ˈaɪ̯z ˈɹaɪ̯t/

eyes right interjection: a command to a group of soldiers to turn their heads right towards a superior officer.

Interjection

eyes right

  1. A command to a group of soldiers to turn their heads right towards a superior officer.

Noun

eyes right

  1. A salute given by a group of marching soldiers in the above way to an officier or dignitary.
    • […] they had marched past Poincaré at Peterhof, the Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich stepping it out on the right flank with his perfect martial bearing and an air of desperate bravery about him, saluting and giving this honored guest eyes right.1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 225

Questions about eyes right

What does eyes right mean?
Eyes right means a command to a group of soldiers to turn their heads right towards a superior officer.
What part of speech is eyes right?
Eyes right can be an interjection or a noun.
How do you pronounce eyes right?
Eyes right is pronounced /ˈaɪ̯z ˈɹaɪ̯t/.

Words near eyes right in the dictionary

  1. Eyes of Horus
  2. Eyes of Providence
  3. eyes of round
  4. eyes on the ground
  5. eyes on the prize
  6. eyes right
  7. eyes up
  8. eyes-only
  9. eyesalve
  10. eyesalves
  11. eyescrew

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