fish-eye n.1
(US) derog. term for an Asian person, thus fish-eyed, of Asian appearance.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Donnybrook [ebook] ‘What’s up with you and the fisheyes in the Jeep, some kind of fetish thing?’[ibid.] ‘You fish-eyed faggot! Quit pressing your prick into my ass’. |
In phrases
(US) to stare at (in a hostile manner).
| It’s Up to You 43: It seemed to me that everybody in the world was giving me the fish eye. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Bulletin (Sydney) 29 Aug. 16/1: She didn’t cheek us once or give us the frozen eye like the usual city duchess-in-waiting, but just [...] straggled in and out with the food in a happy, savage fashion. | |
| Big Town 18: Every time one of them looked our way I give him the fish eye and the non-stop signal. | |
| in By Himself (1974) 391: The girl gives him the fish-eye. | |
| On Broadway 13 Oct. [synd. col.] Reuben gave him the fishy eye, and then said [...]. | |
| ‘Death Ends the Scene’ Hollywood Detective May 🌐 The cop gave me the fish-eyed focus but looked as if he yearned to hear more. | |
| Forgive Me, Killer (2000) 75: Two hoods [...] gave me the fish eye. | |
| in Sweet Daddy 12: Some of the lousy crumbs give me the fish. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Concrete Kimono 202: Roderick was giving me the fish-eye again. | |
| Trapper’s Last Shot (1974) 11: The driver gave him the fisheye and pulled off slowly. | |
| After Hours 38: The two broads were fish-eyein’ me. | |
| Blood on the Moon 224: Verplanck printed those poems attacking the Bird and me. People started giving us the fisheye in the quad. | |
| (con. 1949) Big Blowdown (1999) 207: The house dick, a fat, bald-headed dude who’d given Matty the fisheye from time to time. | |
| Shame the Devil 11: The driver, some kind of cop, had given him the fish-eye as he passed. | |
| Raiders 71: Ronnie gave him the old fish-eye. ‘You wouldn’t be thinking of grassing us up, would you, Fred?’. | |
| Price You Pay 39: Pops signs me out and gives me the fishy eye because I’m limping. | |
| (con. 1962) Enchanters 93: Patrol cops cruised by and gave Phil the fish eye. |