"eyebombing" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: eyebombings [plural]
Etymology: From eye + bombing or eyebomb + -ing. Etymology templates: {{com|en|eye|bombing}} eye + bombing, {{af|en|eyebomb|-ing}} eyebomb + -ing Head templates: {{en-noun|-|+}} eyebombing (usually uncountable, plural eyebombings)
  1. The action of sticking googly eyes on inanimate objects in public places. Tags: uncountable, usually Categories (topical): Art Related terms: eyebomb
    Sense id: en-eyebombing-en-noun-ztMfo6M0 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ing

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2013 January 16, Deni Kirkova, “'Eyebombing' is the latest online picture craze ... see celebrities Sofia Vergara, Kim Kardashian and even Lord Grantham given a googly-eyed makeover”, in Daily Mail, archived from the original on 2024-04-25",
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          "ref": "2013 December 26, “Hilarious pictures show how 'eyebombing' turns ordinary objects into friendly faces thanks to a pair of googly eyes”, in Daily Mail, archived from the original on 2024-04-25",
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          "text": "The Chabad Rabbi of Camden Town, who is familiar with my photographic work, sent me a photo of an ad campaign he’d seen on the London Underground that had been subjected to eyebombing, correctly intuiting that it was the sort of thing that might interest me.",
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