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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
pop-eyed
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Nutty had a glimpse of the bus-driver, pop-eyed, standing on his brakes.
▪ Thirty-two, tall, rubber-lipped, pop-eyed, very smart but no culture so just wised-up: that's Witney.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
pop-eyed

"having bulging eyes," 1820; see pop (v.) + eye (n.).

Wiktionary
pop-eyed

a. (alternative spelling of popeyed English)

Usage examples of "pop-eyed".

I stared pop-eyed at a leveled finger that resembled a gangrened sausage.

Davy looks like what I imagine a startled fish looks like under water, all gulpy and pop-eyed.

To this end the psychiatrist prescribed Benzedrine tablets from the Kremlin pharmacy and within two weeks the General Secretary was a pop-eyed wreck.

Now, I never enjoyed this sort of thing even when it was a novelty, but clearly EWC is looking for a younger, crunchier, scorchier type of customer than yours truly—the pop-eyed, batter-fried iguana is another giveaway.

Now, I never enjoyed this sort of thing even when it was a novelty, but clearly EWC is looking for a younger, crunchier, scorchier type of customer than yours truly-the pop-eyed, batter-fried iguana is another giveaway.

The dancing had given place to a floor show which was focusing the breathless attention of the pop-eyed sightseers upon the stage, where two huge, iron- muscled Manchus were putting on a ceremonious broadsword contest.

The great dynamic soul caught in the click of the camera's eye, in the heat of rut, bloodless as a fish, slippery as mucus, the soul of the people miscegenating on the sea floor, pop-eyed with longing, harrowed with lust.

We caught the pictures in our final street edition, picked the pages up for the early runs next day, and the circulation boys were pop-eyed for days at the way those papers sold.