- [countable] the whole of the eye, including the round part inside the head that cannot be seenTopics Bodyc1
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- eyeballs [plural](informal) used to refer to the number of people who visit a website, watch a television programme, read a magazine, etc., especially when considering how much money they may bring in
- It's a sad fact that bad news grabs more eyeballs than good news.
Idioms
See eyeball in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarybe drugged up to the eyeballs
- (informal) to have taken or been given a lot of drugs
be up to your eyeballs in something
- (informal) to have a lot of something to deal with
- They're up to their eyeballs in work.
eyeball to eyeball (with somebody)
- (informal) very close to somebody and looking at them, especially during an angry conversation, meeting, etc.
- The protesters and police stood eyeball to eyeball.
- an eyeball-to-eyeball confrontation
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