eye-roll
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Noun[edit]
- The circular movement of one's eyes, usually suggesting feelings of exasperation, disbelief or frustration.
- 2016 October 3, Tad Friend, quoting Sam Altman, “Sam Altman’s Manifest Destiny”, in The New Yorker[1]:
- Another mobile app? You get an eye roll. A rocket company? Everyone wants to go to space.
- 2019 September 27, Shelby Pope, “Why Instagram's biggest book accounts aren't your usual influencers”, in The Guardian[2]:
- Bookstagrammers know about the eyerolls from people outside their community, the notion that because they’re bookstagrammers, they’re can’t be the “right kind” of reader.
Verb[edit]
eye-roll (third-person singular simple present eye-rolls, present participle eye-rolling, simple past and past participle eye-rolled)
- (rare) To perform an eye-roll, or to express exasperation, disbelief or frustration through an eye-roll.
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