"have eyes for" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-have eyes for.ogg [Australia] Forms: has eyes for [present, singular, third-person], having eyes for [participle, present], had eyes for [participle, past], had eyes for [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|have<has,,had> eyes for}} have eyes for (third-person singular simple present has eyes for, present participle having eyes for, simple past and past participle had eyes for)
  1. (transitive) To be romantically interested in (someone). Tags: transitive Translations (Translations): olla kiinnostunut [with-elative] (Finnish), olla ihastunut [with-illative] (Finnish), n’avoir d’yeux que pour (French), tener ojos para (note: usu. preceded by solo) (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-have_eyes_for-en-verb-nLKmoBkS Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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