one-eyed
Americanadjective
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having but one eye.
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Cards. being, of, pertaining to, or using a face card or cards on which the figure is shown in profile, such cards being the jack of spades, the jack of hearts, and the king of diamonds in standard packs of cards.
One-eyed jacks are wild.
Etymology
Origin of one-eyed
before 1000; Middle English, Old English
Example Sentences
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Even after Boise City National Bank closed last month, no one eyed First National with suspicion.
From Time Magazine Archive
He nodded toward an empty classroom to the left of the one eyed statue.
From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling
When he reached the lines, they came out in a swarm—passed him one by one, eyed him, as traders eye a horse—and then saluted him a second time, with the greeting: "Salaam, Chota-Cunnigan-bahadur!"
From Rung Ho! by Mundy, Talbot
After this the one eyed king rushed away from the ting and the people thronged round the old king in order to help him, for he was in the very jaws of death from fright.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 13 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
"I had gain, over said the one eyed; why I see you two eyes, and you not look me who one."
From English as she is spoke or, A jest in sober earnest by Fonseca, José da
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