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Definition of turn a blind eye
turn a blind eye
verb
- to ignore a misdeed.
- See more words with the same meaning: to reject, ignore.
Last edited on Aug 31 2010. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Aug 11 2009.
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Other terms relating to 'to reject, ignore': | |
| Definitions include: to ignore. | |
| Definitions include: to ignore someone | |
| Definitions include: to reject or cancel. | |
| Definitions include: Ignore me. | |
| Definitions include: Rejection of a request or an advance, most commonly in the romantic context. | |
| Definitions include: To reject or refuse, often in an abrupt or forceful manner. | |
| Definitions include: to deliberately ignore someone when you meet them. | |
| Definitions include: to be cut off from contact. | |
| Definitions include: to ignore, pass by. | |
| Definitions include: to leave. | |
| Definitions include: to ignore or dismiss. | |
| Definitions include: to reject. | |
| Definitions include: to fail to meet a person or group. | |
| Definitions include: to reject or diss someone. | |
| Definitions include: to ignore another person(s) in a rude manner. | |
Slang terms with the same root words
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Other terms relating to 'a': | |
| Definitions include: amphetamine. | |
| Definitions include: the best. | |
| Definitions include: something you have now is worth more than two things you have just a chance of getting. | |
| Definitions include: excessive. | |
| Definitions include: sexual activity. | |
| Definitions include: In the West/Central Canadian accent, "about" is pronounced somewhere between "aboot" and "a boat". | |
| Definitions include: a little crazy | |
| Definitions include: an unspecified small number. | |
| Definitions include: to play around. | |
| Definitions include: very common. | |
| Definitions include: a mythical creature who is extremely happy or fortunate. | |
| Definitions include: a non-specified price. | |
| Definitions include: a non-specified price. | |
| Definitions include: to collide with a tree. | |
| Definitions include: an ugly face. | |
Other terms relating to 'blind': | |
| Definitions include: to be high by marijuana; derived from the way your eyes squint when you're high. | |
| Definitions include: a date in which the two people haven't met beforehand. | |
| Definitions include: An unlicensed bar or nite club usually open well after legal closing hours. Seems to be of Southern US origin, I have heard its use in Detroit, Chicago, and Milwaukee. After the show, we went to that blind pig on 26th St and stayed until dawn. | |
| Definitions include: a prejudice. | |
Other terms relating to 'eye': | |
| Definitions include: attracted to young males. | |
| Definitions include: something or someone cherished above all others. | |
| Definitions include: to conspicuously notice. | |
| Definitions include: a person's favorite person. | |
| Definitions include: the anus. | |
| Definitions include: having extremely large eyes. | |
| Definitions include: a metaphorical "eye" that a person with no sense of style has. | |
| Definitions include: attractive. | |
| Definitions include: to look at. | |
| Definitions include: to look at a person lustfully. | |
| Definitions include: an unattractive person. | |
| Definitions include: New technology using the movement of the eyes to browse the internet and control your computer, through a headset. | |
| Definitions include: an attractive person. | |
| Definitions include: dried eye secretions, most commonly experienced upon waking from a night's sleep; "rheum"; "gound". | |
| Definitions include: to look coyly and invitingly at. | |
Other terms relating to 'turn': | |
| Definitions include: a dirty or unpleasant task that one must do since it is part of one's share of the work, and that others have taken their turn doing before them. | |
| Definitions include: a good book. | |
| Definitions include: a style of high-volume bartending in which one rings up a customer for their purchase, and then turns to the next customer. | |
| Definitions include: of a female, to become promiscuous or to become a prostitute. | |
| Definitions include: to go to bed. | |
| Definitions include: to search very thoroughly. | |
| Definitions include: the destruction of the human body by explosion, heavy fire or similar trauma. | |
| Definitions include: fully equipped and ready to go. | |
| Definitions include: to let a person have free reign. | |
| Definitions include: something one finds sexually repulsive. | |
| Definitions include: something one finds sexually exciting. | |
| Definitions include: to no longer give attention to. | |
| Definitions include: to cry, especially for effect. | |
| Definitions include: See turn on. | |
| Definitions include: to rob. | |
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