eyeball
eye|ball /'aɪbɔːl/ (eyeballs eyeballing eyeballed)
1 [N-COUNT]
Your eyeballs are your whole eyes, rather than just the part which can be seen between your eyelids.
2 [VERB] V n
If you eyeball someone or something, you stare at them. (INFORMAL)
The guard eyeballed him pretty hard despite his pass.
3 [PHRASE] PHR after v, v-link PHR, PHR n, oft PHR with n
If you are eyeball to eyeball with someone, you are in their presence and involved in a meeting, dispute, or contest with them. You can also talk about having an eyeball to eyeball meeting or confrontation. (INFORMAL)
...proposals that the two armies end their eyeball to eyeball confrontation and withdraw.
= face to face
4 [PHRASE] usu v-link PHR, adj/-ed PHR, PHR in n
You use up to the eyeballs to emphasize that someone is in an undesirable state to a very great degree. (INFORMAL)
He is out of a job and up to his eyeballs in debt.
1 [N-COUNT]
Your eyeballs are your whole eyes, rather than just the part which can be seen between your eyelids.
2 [VERB] V n
If you eyeball someone or something, you stare at them. (INFORMAL)
The guard eyeballed him pretty hard despite his pass.
3 [PHRASE] PHR after v, v-link PHR, PHR n, oft PHR with n
If you are eyeball to eyeball with someone, you are in their presence and involved in a meeting, dispute, or contest with them. You can also talk about having an eyeball to eyeball meeting or confrontation. (INFORMAL)
...proposals that the two armies end their eyeball to eyeball confrontation and withdraw.
= face to face
4 [PHRASE] usu v-link PHR, adj/-ed PHR, PHR in n
You use up to the eyeballs to emphasize that someone is in an undesirable state to a very great degree. (INFORMAL)
He is out of a job and up to his eyeballs in debt.