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When a person refuses to see something in plain view because of preconceived notions of what this something should look like. This frequently happens to naïve people.
In the movie of the same name, the title refers to sexuality, specifically to female sexuality, and a refusal of the protagonist to see that women can have both sexual fantasies (besides her primary partner) and substantial sex drive.
Conservatives and Liberals talk and look at one another with their eyes wide shut.
by One Uncommon Word July 19, 2017
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Intelligence agency term for "psychological operation". A government or corporate-sponsored operation, usually taking the form of a "terrorist attack" or "crazed gunman on a spree", with the intent of panicking the public into demanding more police and laws inhibiting freedom. Psyops are usually carried out by drugging a civilian or group of civilians with aggression-promoting drugs, psyching them up, arming them, and sending them out to commit mayhem. Government-sponsored terrorism. See also blackshirts, conspiracy
Person A: Man, that nutcase Martin Bryant guy shot 35 people in Tasmania!

Person B: No, he wasn't a nutcase, that was just a psyop so the government could have an excuse to ban guns.
by Mystikan April 11, 2006
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Getting so drunk or high your not even aware of whats going on but you see it happening you wont rember when you wake up tho
kinda like drinking yourself into a zombie
alex was walking around at the party with his eye's wide shut last night i bet he dont rember anything he did
by Lane-E July 21, 2011
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