Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various freshwater predatory copepods of the genus Cyclops, having a single eye and, in the female, two egg sacs.
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- noun Greek mythology, Roman mythology A
one -eyed giant fromGreek andRoman mythology . - noun A
one -eyed creature of any species.
Etymologies
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Examples
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With their lies. deceit.corruption, spin, backstabing, dodgy docs, ect have made this country the laughing stock of the western world they were'nt john major and his bunch of feckless spivs. back to basics remember that used the lawyers to cover up the fact he was shagging edwina curry pass the mental bleach bit like dave will get in cause he's not cyclops laughing stock of the western world fraid not silvio has that title cyclops team did'nt even make the play offs
Army Rumour Service 2009
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The cyclops is a big red monster with two flattened horns on his forehead, appearing on the cover of a comic that's already been noted to have more than a passing similarity to Hellboy.
Robot 13 makes the Hellboy comparison a little more explicit 2010
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He would call his cyclops and ask about the delay.
Conan the Indomitable Perry, Steve 1989
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'. .. called cyclops because, as you can see, it has a single eye situated in the centre of its forehead.
My Family and Other Animals Durrell, Gerald, 1925- 1956
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Fat PM Gordon "cyclops" Brown flies Union flag upside down.
Fat PM Gordon "cyclops" Brown flies Union flag upside down. FIDO The Dog 2009
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Who is lying Boris or James Gordon "cyclops" Brown?
Who is lying Boris or James Gordon "cyclops" Brown? FIDO The Dog 2009
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Russel Brand/Jonathan Ross - A pair of wankers post 3 - James Gordon "cyclops" Brown has his eye on them...
Archive 2008-10-01 FIDO The Dog 2008
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El Gordon "cyclops" Brown - Crushing liberty & freedom step by small step.
Archive 2008-06-01 FIDO The Dog 2008
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Much like we were by our embittered old queen Gordon "cyclops" Brown.
Archive 2008-06-01 FIDO The Dog 2008
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Gordon "cyclops" Brown launches new internet watchdog
Archive 2008-09-01 FIDO The Dog 2008
ruzuzu commented on the word cyclops
"There are many uncertainties about the time of colonisation, the phylogenetic relationships and the taxonomic status of dwarf elephants on the Mediterranean islands. Extinction of the insular dwarf elephants has not been correlated with the arrival in the islands of man. Furthermore, it has been suggested by the palaeontologist Othenio Abel in 1914, that the finding of skeletons of such elephants sparked the idea that they belonged to giant cyclopses, because the center nasal opening was thought to be a cyclopic eye socket."
-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarf_elephant
August 10, 2015