eye up

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

eye up (third-person singular simple present eyes up, present participle eyeing up, simple past and past participle eyed up)

1. (idiomatic, colloquial) To examine closely something coveted. Synonym: give someone the eye

   That creep in the corner was eyeing me up.

   The dog was eyeing up my steak.

Translations

To examine

• Danish: beglo
• Italian: adocchiare (it)
• Lithuanian: tyrinėti
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: beglo

• Polish: lustrować (pl)
• Romagnol: aducêr, ducêr