Usually means: Malicious gaze causing misfortune, harm.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word evil eye:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. evil eye, the evil eye: Merriam-Webster
  2. the evil eye: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. evil eye: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. evil eye, the evil eye: Collins English Dictionary
  5. evil eye: Vocabulary.com
  6. evil-eye, evil eye: Wordnik
  7. the evil eye: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. evil-eye, evil eye: Wiktionary
  9. evil eye: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. evil eye: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Evil eye, evil eye: Dictionary.com
  12. Evil Eye (Franz Ferdinand song), Evil Eye (KT Tunstall song), Evil Eye (disambiguation), Evil Eye, Evil eye, The Evil Eye: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Evil eye: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. evil eye: Rhymezone
  15. Evil eye: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. Evil Eye: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  17. evil eye: FreeDictionary.org
  18. evil eye: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. evil eye: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. evil eye: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The evil eye, evil eye: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Evil Eye: Glossary of Terms in Parapsychology
  2. evil eye: The Skeptic's Dictionary
  3. evil eye: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Evil eye: Easton Bible
  2. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. evil eye: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See evil_eyes as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (evil eye)

noun:  A wicked look conveying dislike or envy that in many cultures is believed to be able to cause bad luck or injury; also, the ability to cause bad luck or injury through such a look, supposed to be possessed by some people.
noun:  The charm used to ward off the evil eye; a nazar.
noun:  (often humorous) A look conveying disapproval, envy, hostility, etc.

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