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big eye
noun- a high-powered telescope, especially the one located on Palomar Mountain, California US
- Palomar’s “Big Eye”–already the apple of astronomers’ eyes–is going to be even better than expected after a final polishing. — San Francisco Call-Bulletin, p. 11, 6 May 1949
- California’s second “Big Eye,” the 120 inch mirror for the new telescope at Mt. Hamilton, near San Jose, is ready to probe the heavens. — San Francisco News, p. 11, 26 June 1959
- Flying low over the Gulf of Mexico, pilots approaching the Florida panhandle can see the Big Eye staring at them like some baleful guardian of the coast — Los Angeles Times, p. I-3, 22 February 1968
- a Lockheed EC-121 Warning Star aircraft US
Deployed in Vietnam to provide early warning and communication relay; later redesignated the COLLEGE EYE- — Linda Reinberg, In the Field, p. 21, 1991
- PIRAZ was augmented by an Air Force EC-121 airborne radar aircraft, known as “Big Eye.” — John Sherwood, Afterburner, p. 82, 2003
- insomnia ANTARCTICA, 1959
A common condition in Antarctica because of the wild swings in daylight hours. - — Bernadette Hince, The Antarctic Dictionary, p. 49, 2000
- — Cool Antartica, 2003: “Antarctic slang”
- avarice BAHAMAS
- — John A. Holm, Dictionary of Bahamian English, p. 17, 1982
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