eye lock

English

Noun

eye lock (countable and uncountable, plural eye locks)

1. Alternative form of eyelock
   • 2007, Betty J. Reynolds, Louisiana Coffee ... with Lots of Cream: A Creole Family Memoir:

     Glancing over the crowd as if looking for someone there, his piercing gaze caught my eye. With that one casual eye lock, I would have expected violins to begin to play and all motion to be suspended while I tried to catch my breath.

   • 2013, Jess McCann, You Lost Him at Hello:

     You walk by the guy, smile, give him a good “one Mississippi, two Mississippi” eye lock, and keep walking.

   • 2014, Sam Harris, Waking Up: Searching for Spirituality Without Religion, page 164:

     There are also people who maintain rigid eye lock not from an attitude of openness and interest or from any attempt to appear open and interested but as an aggressive and narcissistic show of dominance.

   • 2014, Hannah Reed, Off Kilter, page 228:

     I gave Gillian and Jack a few special gazes into each other's eyes and some internal dialogue to go with the eye locks, but my thoughts kept going back to the conversation I'd had with Inspector Jamieson regarding Vicki.