keep an eye peeled
To look out (for something) attentively.
Keep an eye peeled, you never know when the ice-cream truck will pass by.
peeled
/piːld/
adj 3
Collocations
5ADJ.
hotter, open, turned
VERB + PEELED
eyes, keep, should've, time
PEELED + NOUN
apple, apples, banana, carrots, fruit, fruits, layer, onions
PREP.
off, on, with
ADV.
away, ever, maybe, quickly
Definitions
adj
1
With the outermost layer or skin removed.
The peeled fruit quickly turned brown.
He stirred the campfire stew with a peeled stick, so the bark wouldn't get in it.
2
Dieted down such as having attained a peak contrast of trained muscle volume.
adj
1
Having a peel; (in combination) having the specified type of peel.
Genova lemons average 8-10 sections and 5-6 seeds. They are thick-peeled and acid. Thin-peeled fruit at right was cured about 10 days.
Only some mammals, such as monkeys (Janson, 1983) and bats (Phua and Corlett, 1989), appear to have the necessary dental capacity to open peeled fruits.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
adjective — (used informally) completely unclothed
- bare-assed
- bare-ass
- raw
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
keep one's eyes peeled
To be on the alert, to be watchful.
And directly below is our Mesozoic jungle river -- where, if you are lucky, you just may catch a glimpse of a very rare carnivore. Keep your eyes peeled, everyone!
Example Bank
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The peeled fruit quickly turned brown.
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He stirred the campfire stew with a peeled stick, so the bark wouldn't get in it.
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Genova lemons average 8-10 sections and 5-6 seeds. They are thick-peeled and acid. Thin-peeled fruit at right was cured about 10 days.
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Only some mammals, such as monkeys (Janson, 1983) and bats (Phua and Corlett, 1989), appear to have the necessary dental capacity to open peeled fruits.
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We don’t know who Foster is, but he sure hates bananas. This New Orleans classic takes the nutritious yellow-peeled fruit, drowns it in butter, smothers it with sugar, douses it with rum, and sets it
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My futon was peeled away.
Tatoeba · #318799Usage Notes
i Register
In some senses, peeled is marked as rare. Watch for register when choosing this word.
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