Meaning of eyelock | Babel Free

Definitions

An occurrence of mutual staring, where each person gazes fixedly into the other's eyes.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“Finally, when the Sunday School classes marched into church for the last hour of the service, there would be added to the congregation young boys and girls, secured to their seats by the eyelocks of stern teachers.”

“The first one to break the eyelock by looking away, dropping the eyes, or closing the eyes was the loser.”

“But this girl in the flimsy dress, a girl who couldn't seem to break eyelock with the Greek god standing behind her?”

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