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

   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