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eyeball

1 noun
     
eye‧ball1 [countable]
1x-ref the round ball that forms the whole of your eye, including the part inside your head
2

eyeball to eyeball

if two people are eyeball to eyeball, they are directly facing each other, especially in an angry or threatening way
3

up to the/your eyeballs in something

informal if someone is up to their eyeballs in something, they have more than they can deal with:
She's up to her eyeballs in debt.
4

drugged/doped up to the eyeballs

if someone is drugged up to the eyeballs, they have taken a lot of drugs so that their behaviour is severely affected
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