Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Makeup used to outline the eyes.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. a cosmetic powder of a dark tint, applied to the eyelid close to the base of the eyelashes to accentuate the eyes. Compare
eye shadow .
WordNet 3.0
- n. makeup applied to emphasize the shape of the eyes
Etymologies
- eye + liner (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Children in eyeliner dancing around to the musical equivalent of a Steps B-side do not provocative and mature entertainment make.”
“When the founding fathers wrote the first amendment to the Constitution, I hope one of them was like, What if some douche in eyeliner wants to say the ‘F’ word at an awards show only college kids are watching someday?”
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“Considering that Sherlock in many ways owes a debt to the cultural phenomenon that is the Pirates of the Caribbean series, don’t be too surprised if a hipper Long John Silver borrows some eyeliner from the Jack Sparrow’s collection.”
“You don’t hire Danny Huston to stand around in eyeliner for fifteen seconds as Poseidon.”
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“I did laugh during the whole, eyeliner is not brain surgery bit and John’s "no one tried to kill me and she didn’t kill anyone, so it was a good day," line is classic.”
“How did this idea to name eyeliner for streets come to you?”
“This is not a pencil so when you sharpen it, you are sharpening the actual product and not the covering of the eyeliner, which is made of plastic.”
“I think that the eyeliner is a bit much and the hair piece is a little tacky, but her lips look phenomenal.”
“The fact that we're giving eighteen-year-old girls in Equatorial Guinea the confidence to spend their fifty-cents-a-week salary on the right kind of eyeliner ... that's something all women can feel proud of.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘eyeliner’.
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eye phrases
eye appeal, eye-apple, eye-area, eye-baby, eye bank, eye-bar, eye-bath, eye-bedewing, eye-beguiling, eye-bewildering, eye-bewitching, eye-black and 320 more...
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See, The Eyes Have It
List of words (or phrases) containing eye-, -eye-, or -eye. Beginning with red-eye and eyebright.
I've since begun adding other more oblique terms that lack the string -eye-, but that...red-eye, eyebright, arguw-eye, bigeye, bird's-eye, buckeye, blarneyed, wheyey, eyebrow, eyecup, eyedropper, eyeful and 296 more...
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eyelashes
What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
Walter Scott
“She lowered her lashes until they almost cuddled her cheeks and slowly...bree, eye-bree, winker, eyelash, lash, eye-winker, cilia, black-lashed, lashed, dark-lashed, long-lashed, Greek word for ey... and 22 more...
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liners
a luxury of liners
liner, aliner, blueliner, redliner, one-liner, nine-liner, streamliner, ocean liner, jetliner, airliner, peanoliner, baseliner and 34 more...
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Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV
Words from the songs of Frank Black, a.k.a. Black Francis
zugzwang, valhalla, montalvo, ishist, tritons, mosh, siam, llano del rio, protohuman, tumbleweeds, ludwigshafen, ballyhoos and 349 more...
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Speaking in Tongues - an REM list
Words heard in various REM songs that I enjoy and that I think are indicative of the band. Not too literally, of course.
pilgrimage, pageant, suspicion, penitence, gentlemen, chronic, stigma, deadlier, transit, fortunate, momentum, misconstrued and 162 more...
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