Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having but one eye; cyclopean; also, having but one eye capable of vision.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective having or showing only one eye.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having only a
single eye, particularly when a higher number is normal.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having or showing only one eye
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Examples
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Jim made it clear that unless it was absolutely unavoidable we wouldn’t be travelling during the hours of darkness; there were too many hazards, trucks without lights, pedestrians walking the roads, Bosnian motorbikes, as he called the one-eyed monster that’s a car with one headlamp out.
Long Way Down Ewan McGregor 2007
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Jim made it clear that unless it was absolutely unavoidable we wouldn’t be travelling during the hours of darkness; there were too many hazards, trucks without lights, pedestrians walking the roads, Bosnian motorbikes, as he called the one-eyed monster that’s a car with one headlamp out.
Long Way Down Ewan McGregor 2007
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Jim made it clear that unless it was absolutely unavoidable we wouldn’t be travelling during the hours of darkness; there were too many hazards, trucks without lights, pedestrians walking the roads, Bosnian motorbikes, as he called the one-eyed monster that’s a car with one headlamp out.
Long Way Down Ewan McGregor 2007
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Jim made it clear that unless it was absolutely unavoidable we wouldn’t be travelling during the hours of darkness; there were too many hazards, trucks without lights, pedestrians walking the roads, Bosnian motorbikes, as he called the one-eyed monster that’s a car with one headlamp out.
Long Way Down Ewan McGregor 2007
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But being a so called "one-eyed" supporter I reckon we'll get home by 8.
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Mullah Omar, popularly known as the one-eyed Taliban, was the first member of the Taliban I met back in 2001.
Reuters: Press Release Erik De Castro 2011
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I can't get over the sight of the one-eyed and the blind.
After Tahrir, Finishing the Revolution Robin Wright 2012
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In the show, Philip J. Fry, a pizza boy who is accidentally cryogenically frozen until the 31st century, lives in "New New York" and makes some odd friends, including a hedonistic robot, a curvaceous one-eyed ship captain and a professor who happens to be his very distant nephew.
TV on DVD 2011
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The Banksy Effect, the term coined by journalist Max Foster several years ago, speaks to an awakening of interest in the (often illegal) interventions that artists use to call attention to the way we complacently live under larger-than-life infrastructures built (often) by one-eyed men.
Dylan Kendall: Street Art: A Window to a City's Soul Dylan Kendall 2011
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I mean sure, the whole pissing off Poseidon thing, the sirens, getting them eaten by a one-eyed giant, and the eventual collective cock-block when he "rescued" them all from the island of sexy vixens and never-ending free drinks.
Hubris, it's not just for breakfast anymore wendigomountain 2009
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