four-eyed
Americanadjective
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having or seeming to have four eyes.
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Slang: Usually Disparaging. wearing eyeglasses (sometimes used facetiously).
Etymology
Origin of four-eyed
First recorded in 1880–85
Example Sentences
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It is filled with vivid vehicles - there's an orange caravan painted with a four-eyed mermaid and a rather less jokey black vehicle painted with a white mushroom cloud.
From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2015
I was very careful to pay no attention to the gnarly, four-eyed alien head peering over my shoulder.
From Nature ● Feb. 27, 2013
Astronauts need near-perfect vision, and as a four-eyed kid, I probably wasn’t going to be launched into space.
From Slate ● Jun. 21, 2012
The fourth and final season, out now on DVD, sees our four-eyed heroine stymied in the love stakes but promoted at work.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 8, 2011
He placed them carefully on my head and said, “It sucks what they did to you, Mars. I told Coach Walski that, too. You’re the best seventh-grade, four-eyed Martian goalie in the entire county.”
From "Tangerine" by Edward Bloor
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