the round part of the eye of a vertebrate, within the eyelids and socket.
verb
[with object] informal
look or stare at closely:we eyeballed one another
Phrases
eyeball to eyeball
face to face with someone, especially in an aggressive way:he wheeled round to confront John eyeball to eyeball [as modifier]:an eyeball-to-eyeball confrontation
give someone the hairy eyeball
North American informal stare at someone in a disapproving or angry way, especially with one’s eyelids partially lowered:not one, but two security guards started giving me the hairy eyeball
up to the (or one's) eyeballs
informal used to emphasize the extreme degree of an undesirable situation:he’s up to his eyeballs in debt
eyeball in other Oxford dictionaries
Definition of eyeball in the US English dictionary
