"eye up" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-eye up.ogg [Australia] Forms: eyes up [present, singular, third-person], eyeing up [participle, present], eyed up [participle, past], eyed up [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} eye up (third-person singular simple present eyes up, present participle eyeing up, simple past and past participle eyed up)
  1. (idiomatic, colloquial) To examine closely something coveted Tags: colloquial, idiomatic Translations (To examine): beglo (Danish), adocchiare (Italian), tyrinėti (Lithuanian), beglo (Norwegian Bokmål), lustrować (Polish), aducêr (Romagnol), ducêr (Romagnol)
    Sense id: en-eye_up-en-verb-ySop-tpZ Categories (other): English phrasal verbs with particle (up)

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          "text": "That creep in the corner was eyeing me up."
        },
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          "code": "da",
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          "sense": "To examine",
          "word": "beglo"
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          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "To examine",
          "word": "adocchiare"
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          "lang": "Lithuanian",
          "sense": "To examine",
          "word": "tyrinėti"
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          "sense": "To examine",
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          "sense": "To examine",
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          "sense": "To examine",
          "word": "aducêr"
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          "lang": "Romagnol",
          "sense": "To examine",
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      "code": "da",
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      "sense": "To examine",
      "word": "beglo"
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "To examine",
      "word": "adocchiare"
    },
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      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "To examine",
      "word": "tyrinėti"
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      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "To examine",
      "word": "beglo"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "To examine",
      "word": "lustrować"
    },
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      "code": "rgn",
      "lang": "Romagnol",
      "sense": "To examine",
      "word": "aducêr"
    },
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      "code": "rgn",
      "lang": "Romagnol",
      "sense": "To examine",
      "word": "ducêr"
    }
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  "word": "eye up"
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