eyeball

From eye +‎ ball. Compare Middle English balle off the eye, balle of þe eyȝe (“eyeball”, literally “ball of the eye”).

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eyeball (plural eyeballs)

1. the ball of the eye
   • 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act I Scene 2

     Go, make thyself like a nymph o' th' sea.

     Be subject to no sight but thine and mine, invisible

     To every eyeball else. Go, take this shape,

     And hither come in't; go! Hence, with diligence!

2. (CB, slang) a meeting

   We had an eyeball last year.

3. (marketing, in the plural) readership or viewership
4. (Caribbean) A favourite or pet; the apple of someone's eye.

• eye-apple

eyeball (third-person singular simple present eyeballs, present participle eyeballing, simple past and past participle eyeballed)

1. To 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. To scrutinize
3. To stare at intently

   Are you eyeballing my girl?

4. To roll one's eyes.
   • 2018 April 10, Daniel Taylor, “Liverpool go through after Mohamed Salah stops Manchester City fightback”, in The Guardian (London)‎:

     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.

• eyeballer

• bums in seats