Usually means: Exhibiting extreme irrational or fanatical behavior.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. swivel-eyed: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. swivel-eyed: Wordnik
  3. swivel-eyed: Wiktionary
  4. Swivel-eyed: Dictionary.com
  5. Swivel-eyed: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  6. swivel-eyed: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  7. Swivel-eyed: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  8. swivel-eyed: FreeDictionary.org
  9. Swivel-eyed: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. swivel-eyed: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (swivel-eyed)

▸ adjective:  Having a squint.
▸ adjective:  (by extension) Fanatical, deranged.

Similar:
squint-eyed, squinty, gimlet-eyed, boss-eyed, lazy, gleyed, slit-eyed, weak-eyed, buck-eyed, four-eyed, more...

Opposite:
clear-eyed, level-headed, rational

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Similar:
squint-eyed, squinty, gimlet-eyed, boss-eyed, lazy, gleyed, slit-eyed, weak-eyed, buck-eyed, four-eyed, more...

Opposite:
clear-eyed, level-headed, rational



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