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hairy eyeball

noun

Definitions

  1. A look askance at someone

    A look askance at someone; a look of disdain or skepticism.

    • He was giving me the hairy eyeball.

  2. A fond look at someone while batting one's eyelashes.

    • He was telling me about a girl looking at him and he said, "She gave me the hairy eyeball." That meant she liked him.
    • (Second variation as first used and described on television, in the TV show Hazel 4/6/1962).

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