eyeballnoun/ˈaɪ.bɔːl/

• 1

  The ball of the eye.

  • Near-synonym: eye
  • You'll change your mind about not bothering with safety glasses once you've injured your eyeball. That's called closing the barn door after the horse gets out.
• 2

  An instance of eyeballing something.

  • Give this report an eyeball, will you please?
• 3

  informalSurveillance.

  • Intelligence work is necessarily limited in scope by the capacity of national surveillance systems. […] Ultimately, it is only when you have an 'eyeball' or the electronic equivalent on a suspect that you have a reasonable chance of a preventive intervention.
• 4

  businessmarketingA readership or viewership.

  • We need compelling content for the new Web site so we can attract more eyeballs.
  • When The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power debuted at the same time as House of the Dragon, much noise was made about which show attracted more eyeballs.
• 5

  slangA face-to-face meeting.

  • We had an eyeball last year.
• 6

  A favourite or pet; the apple of someone's eye.

eyeballverb/ˈaɪ.bɔːl/

• 1

  informalTo gauge, estimate or judge by eye, rather than measuring precisely; to look or glance at.

  • A good cook can often just eyeball the correct quantities of ingredients.
  • Each geometric construction must be exact; eyeballing it and getting close does not count.
• 2

  informalTo stare at intently.

  • Are you eyeballing my girl?
• 3

  To roll one's eyes.

  • Guardiola strode on to the pitch at half-time to remonstrate with the Spanish referee, Antonio Mateu Lahoz, but went too far with his eyeballing and matador-like hand movements. He was “upstairs”, in the Colin Bell stand, to watch Liverpool’s second-half turnaround and a dismal seven days for City take another turn for the worse.