Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Informal Eliciting wonder or astonishment: an eye-popping display of fireworks.
Wiktionary
- adj. Visually astonishing, stunning, incredible.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. amazingly impressive; suggestive of the flashing of lightning
Etymologies
- The image is of a viewer's eyes opening wide to the point of popping out. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The Holy Ghost teaches us, he says, and “when you are praying in tongues you are speaking about this ‘eye-popping destiny’ that He has for you.””
“In the United States, well-endowed pinup girls, including Jayne Mansfield and Marilyn Monroe, donned eye-popping bikinis for photo shoots.”
“The accompanying statistics boasted that it achieves the equivalent of 93 miles per gallon, which is pretty eye-popping.”
The Wall Street Journal: Why Are General Motors Shares Stuck in Reverse?
“Mr. Doonan admitted he was "bewildered" that he hadn't been contacted as we sat in the elegantly eye-popping Greenwich Village apartment he shares with his partner, home-furnishing designer and potter Jonathan Adler , and their Norwich terrier Liberace.”
“But look at the eye-popping variation in yields among funds that focus on Treasury inflation-protected securities, or TIPS, the U.S. obligations that rise in value as the consumer-price index goes up.”
The Wall Street Journal: How Inflation-Protected Funds Get to Inflate Their Yields
“Whatever eye-popping gimmickry succeeded with the theatrical release, it was lost on me in my living room.”
““From 1985 to 2006, EITC payments grew from $2.1 billion to $44.4 billion, or by an eye-popping 2,014 percent,” Rubenstein said.”
“They wear eye-popping orange windbreakers and orange-and-white-striped uniforms, better to locate them should they get lost on the way back to their housing units.”
“David David will be selling T-shirts, badges and pinwheels adorned with his eye-popping geometric patterns, plus customising prints specially created for the fair.”
“The Republicans-as-civil-rights-champions argument, by the way, will be familiar to anyone who remembers North Carolina Congresswoman Virginia Foxx's eye-popping 2009 assertion that Republicans, not Democrats, passed civil rights legislation in the 60's.”
Lists
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eye phrases
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Tweets
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bilby "Spending eye-popping sums of money, deploying armies of lobbyists, dispatching grassroots foot soldiers as agents of disruption, the special interests have fought fiercely to derail the White House reform agenda."
- Andy Kroll, Obama vs. the Lobbyists, tomdispatch.com, 15 Sep 2009. Sep 16, 2009