"keep an eye out" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-keep an eye out.ogg [Australia] Forms: keeps an eye out [present, singular, third-person], keeping an eye out [participle, present], kept an eye out [participle, past], kept an eye out [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|keep<,,kept> an eye out}} keep an eye out (third-person singular simple present keeps an eye out, present participle keeping an eye out, simple past and past participle kept an eye out)
  1. (idiomatic) To watch for or look out for. Tags: idiomatic Related terms: keep an eye peeled Translations (to watch for): pitää silmällä (Finnish), être attentif (French), être vigilant (French), botar o ollo (Galician), achten auf (German), Ausschau halten (German), tenere d'occhio (Italian), wytężać wzrok [imperfective] (Polish), wytężyć wzrok [perfective] (Polish)
    Sense id: en-keep_an_eye_out-en-verb-rwHgFycX Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for keep an eye out meaning in English (2.3kB)

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