Eagle, The
a British weekly comic (=a magazine with stories told in pictures) for boys, which was popular in the 1950s and 1960s. Its best-known character was Dan Dare.

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I. ea‧gle¹ /ˈiːɡəl/ noun [countable]
[Date: 1300-1400; Language: Old French; Origin: aigle, from Latin aquila]

1. a very large strong bird with a beak like a hook that eats small animals, birds etc

2. two strokes less than par (=the usual number of strokes for a hole) in a game of golf

3. eagle eye used to say that someone is watching carefully or is likely to notice something:
They carried on working, under the eagle eye of the owner.

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II. eagle² verb [transitive]
to use two strokes less than the usual number of strokes for a hole in a game of golf

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Eagle, The
a British weekly comic (=a magazine with stories told in pictures) for boys, which was popular in the 1950s and 1960s. Its best-known character was Dan Dare.

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eagle
noun
EAGLE + VERB circle, fly, soar | swoop | catch sth, prey on sth | nest | breed
EAGLE + NOUN eye (figurative) The tiny error didn't escape the eagle eye of her boss.

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