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eyelid

 noun
     
Related topics: Human
eye‧lid [countable]
HBH a piece of skin that covers your eye when it is closed:
His eyelids began to droop (=close, because he was sleepy).
The room spun. Her eyelids fluttered (=moved up and down quickly) and she fainted.

➔ not bat an eyelid

at bat2 (2)
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