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stinkeye

stinkeye
 n.— «The patrol had halted in a particularly unfriendly part of the city where the marines say they get “the stinkeye” a lot.» —“Iraq Journal: Filtering language in Fallujah” by Julian E. Barnes in Fallujah, Iraq U.S. News & World Report June 18, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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