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词汇 eyeball
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eyeball n.

also eye-ball, "the ball or globe of the eye," so called for its shape, 1580s, from eye (n.) + ball (n.1), which is attested from c. 1400 in the sense "spherical structure of the eye." As a verb, 1901, American English slang. Related: Eyeballed; eyeballing.

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