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  • noun A native or resident of the American state of Iowa.

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Examples

  • HAWKEYE HIT: Iowa City Police are investigating how police dash cam video of a Hawkeye football player's motorcycle accident was leaked

    Channel 13 Sports 2010

  • HAWKEYE HIT: Iowa City Police are investigating how police dash cam video of a Hawkeye football player's motorcycle accident was leaked

    Channel 13 Sports 2010

  • Luke Cage, Hawkeye and Iron Fist are people he's interacted with on occasion, but only really knows from this iteration of the Avengers and Hawkeye is just back from the dead with no explanation other than it's magic.

    Spider-Man’s latest unmasking ‘not a decision we entered into lightly’ | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment 2009

  • After radioing USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) of the intent to conduct a controlled bailout, an E-2C Hawkeye from the Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron (VAW) 121 impacted the water approximately five miles from the ship.

    KIA KIA/BNR 2010

  • Allied to noone, Hawkeye is the first American hero in the western's mould of manliness.

    Last of the Mohicans: No 18 Cath Clarke 2010

  • So they thought Hawkeye is an interesting role, and asked me if I knew anything about him.

    Jeremy Renner Will Not Be Hawkeye « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more 2009

  • I now know where the expression Hawkeye comes from, because kites can tell from forty feet up whether they are looking at a tasty bit of chicken skin or a boring old bit of bread.

    Archive 2009-09-01 Bystander 2009

  • I now know where the expression Hawkeye comes from, because kites can tell from forty feet up whether they are looking at a tasty bit of chicken skin or a boring old bit of bread.

    Off-Topic? Moi? Bystander 2009

  • What makes me think that maybe she will - even though there are numerous ways the Young Avengers could be involved in whatever story they're telling - is that Kate is currently fighting crime under the name Hawkeye and it looks like she may have some competition for that title from one of the new, "dark" Avengers.

    Why I'll be reading Dark Reign Michael May 2008

  • The crew of the Hawkeye is listed among the missing because their remains were never found to send home to the country they served.

    Horchar, Andrew A. Jr. 1990

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