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eye
noun- desire, an appetite US, 1934
- When she has “big eyes” for you–she means she “goes” for you. — Walter Winchell, San Francisco Call-Bulletin, p. 7, 15 January 1946
- — Babs Gonzales, Be-Bop Dictionary and History of its Famous Stars, p. 9, 1949
- Why don’t you forget this bum and give that Betsy Bugbee a tumble? She’s got big eyes for you. — Bernard Wolfe, The Late Risers, p. 25, 1954
- “You’re out of your skull,” said the papa bear, “although it does look as if somebody had eyes for the soup over there.” — Steve Allen, Bop Fables, p. 9, 1955
- I would prefer if he didn’t have eyes for her so obviously[.] — Jack Kerouac, The Subterraneans, p. 84, 1958
- He had big eyes for her, and each time he saw her and the other girl he started playing with an expensive brooch, looking at Alice. — Clarence Cooper Jr, The Scene, p. 34, 1960 “Big eyes to scoff,” Hassan said. — Ross Russell, The Sound, p. 15, 1961 I though you had such big eyes for her. — Terry Southern, Blue Movie, p. 97, 1970 There are plenty of women with big eyes for me tonight. — Richard Condon, Prizzi’s Glory, p. 187, 1988
- a person who is not a part of the criminal underworld but who reports what he sees to those who are US
- — R. Frederick West, God’s Gambler, p. 225, 1964: “Appendix A”
- a private detective US, 1930
- isten, Propser, listen to me good, the eyes in those smooth stores have the hone for uncool threads. — Bernard Wolfe, The Magic of Their Singing, p. 25, 1961
- a hand-held mirror used by a prisoner to see what is happening down their cellblock US
- — William K. Bentley and James M. Corbett, Prison Slang, p. 6, 1992
- an automatic timing light on a drag racing track US
- here is a set of eyes at both the starting and finish lines. — Ed Radlauer, Drag Racing Pix Dix, p. 21, 1970
- a railway track signal US
- Norman Carlisle, The Modern Wonder Book of Trains and Railroading, p. 262, 1946
- — Ramon Adams, The Language of the Railroader, p. 56, 1977
- the anus US
- — Charles Shafer, Folk Speech in Texas Prisons, p. 203, 1990
▶ I will in my eye
used for registering refusal IRELAND- He’ll bring you? He will in his eye. — Patrick McCabe, Carn, p. 37, 1993
▶ my eye!; all my eye!; my eye and Betty Martin!
used for registering disbelief UK, 1842- — A P Cowie, R Mackin and I R McCaig, Oxford Dictionary of Current Idiomatic English, p. 393, 1983
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