give the eye

1. 1.

   look at with a critical eye

   “When the movie star entered, all the women gave him the once over”

   Synonymsgive the once over

   Broaderlook

Questions about give the eye

What does give the eye mean?

give the eye means "look at with a critical eye".

What is another word for give the eye?

Close synonyms include give the once over. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is give the eye a common word?

give the eye is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.