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- noun idiomatic, derogatory A person who wears
spectacles .
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Examples
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It talks about "four-eyes," because he has glasses.
Mike Ragogna: Sweetheart Of The Sun & Modern Art: Chatting with The Bangles' Susanna Hoffs and Matthew Sweet Mike Ragogna 2011
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And I shouldn't neglect to say that even as a four-eyes totally bookish wimp introvert, I did a moderate amount of playing with the kids in the neighborhood, in the street: stickball, and punchball, and bouncing the ball off the stoops, and just running around the backyards of houses we shouldn't go near, climbing trees and fences, wrestling, etc.
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It was what is called in intelligence parlance a “four-eyes” meeting, which meant that it was just Tenet and Musharraf, with no aides present.
Fallout Catherine Collins 2011
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It was what is called in intelligence parlance a “four-eyes” meeting, which meant that it was just Tenet and Musharraf, with no aides present.
Fallout Catherine Collins 2011
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It talks about "four-eyes," because he has glasses.
Mike Ragogna: Sweetheart Of The Sun & Modern Art: Chatting with The Bangles' Susanna Hoffs and Matthew Sweet Mike Ragogna 2011
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Once upon a time, it was a schoolyard taunt to label someone four-eyes, but in Taiwan, they have adopted an unusual take on such labels: sporting sport eyeglass frames sans the lenses.
Paul Rockower: A Taiwanese Take on Four-Eyes Paul Rockower 2010
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Once upon a time, it was a schoolyard taunt to label someone "four-eyes," but in Taiwan, they have adopted an unusual take on such labels.
Paul Rockower: A Taiwanese Take on Four-Eyes Paul Rockower 2010
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Once upon a time, it was a schoolyard taunt to label someone "four-eyes," but in Taiwan, they have adopted an unusual take on such labels.
Paul Rockower: A Taiwanese Take on Four-Eyes Paul Rockower 2010
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If there's anyone who can do four-eyes chic, it's definitely Bruni, who wore her specs with a lose-fitting pant suit and a campaign t-shirt.
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ScoobyD pointed this Head-tripping four-eyes image on boing boing to me.
oroboros commented on the word four-eyes
School yard taunt aimed at a kid wearing spectacles.
December 9, 2007
cricket commented on the word four-eyes
Spectacles always sounds like tentacles to me.
February 26, 2008
gangerh commented on the word four-eyes
In that case, cricket, never mind a seeing-aid, you need a hearing-aid!
February 26, 2008
cricket commented on the word four-eyes
Great. I've already got glasses and braces. Next thing you know I'll be a metal-head.
March 2, 2008