Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Eliciting wonder or astonishment.
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- adjective Visually
astonishing ,stunning ,incredible .
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- adjective amazingly impressive; suggestive of the flashing of lightning
Etymologies
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Examples
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In the United States, well-endowed pinup girls, including Jayne Mansfield and Marilyn Monroe, donned eye-popping bikinis for photo shoots.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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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.”
American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010
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In the United States, well-endowed pinup girls, including Jayne Mansfield and Marilyn Monroe, donned eye-popping bikinis for photo shoots.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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“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.
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Whatever eye-popping gimmickry succeeded with the theatrical release, it was lost on me in my living room.
Archive 2010-03-01 2010
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The accompanying statistics boasted that it achieves the equivalent of 93 miles per gallon, which is pretty eye-popping.
Why Are General Motors Shares Stuck in Reverse? James B. Stewart 2011
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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.
A Royal Pronouncement Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011
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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.
One Bright Side of Rikers Island Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011
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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.
How Inflation-Protected Funds Get to Inflate Their Yields Jason Zweig 2011
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Whatever eye-popping gimmickry succeeded with the theatrical release, it was lost on me in my living room.
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"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.
September 16, 2009