eyelock

Etymology

Definitions

1. 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.
   • The first one to break the eyelock by looking away, dropping the eyes, or closing the eyes was the loser.
   • But this girl in the flimsy dress, a girl who couldn't seem to break eyelock with the Greek god standing behind her?
2. 2

   To lock eyes (with).

   • We eyelocked, looked really hard at eachother,^([sic]) each one thinking the other was the strange thing in the fishtank.
   • Giant Kurt Stregner pauses, sneers as he eyelocks Joe.
   • He had these impossibly dark eyes, the intense kind that looked like they knew what you were thinking, even before you did. We both looked away so fast that I had to wonder if we'd eyelocked at all.

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