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ogle at (one)

To stare at one, especially in a lecherous, lustful, or objectifying manner. Some guy at the bar has been ogling at me all night. Let's leave. I'm sorry, I really wasn't ogling at you, I was just lost in thought and happened to be staring in your direction.
See also: ogle
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ogle (at) someone or something

to stare at someone or something, usually with amorous or erotic relish. Don't just stand there and ogle at me! Stop ogling at those magazines.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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THIERRY OGLER * SAO PAULO MUNCHIES MARKET Latin America is Pepsi's largest market for its snack products, like chips, after North America.
"Seaside" (Bord de Mer), producer, Alain Benguigui; director, Julie LopesCurval; cast, Bulle Ogler, Helene Filieres.
Angele (Baye) is the oldest of three pink-uniformed employees who administer countless beauty treatments at the title establishment, a small but thriving neighborhood salon owned by business-minded Nadine (Bulle Ogler).
Dubai Police deserve our full praise for keeping a vigilant eye on those who simply want to relax and enjoy their rare moments of privacy -- a concept which these oglers obviously have no regard for.
THE Defence Housing Authority park in Zamzama has two walking tracks while its open-air gym attracts thousands of walkers, joggers and, yes, the regular oglers. All the same, it is a nice, quaint place offering a much needed respite in a concrete jungle.
Sparing the oglers, of course, who have to play charity and weep crocodile tears.
That was great for the oglers out there, but the 'grand entrance' took so long to play out that it dampened the excitement of the (too extended) scene.
Do you honestly think David Cameron, a man loaded enough to be able to travel club class every time he flies, would choose to sit in a cramped seat where he's on full view, shoving paprika Pringles down his neck, and prone to the odd habits of nosey oglers with cameras?
However, not only was this essay written before the publication of his best and most mature work, but it is insistently predictive and conditional rather than descriptive, as in, for instance, this much-cited passage: "The next real literary 'rebels' in this country might well emerge as some weird bunch of anti-rebels, born oglers who dare somehow to back away from ironic watching, who have the childish gall actually to endorse and instantiate single-entendre principles" (81).
[1] Sundance has come to Park City once again--the streets are filled with avid movie star oglers, film students who've hitched their way to Utah, the press corps, unknown filmmakers who are hoping to find a way to share their movies with a larger audience, industry movers and shakers and a few stars.
Adams, meanwhile, has high spirits and plenty for oglers to ogle.
But there will always be ghoulish oglers out there willing to hand him a buck so they can enjoy front seats at the great Charlie BBQ.
Take for example a recent article from Emirates 24|7 which reports that 'strange' men (we are going to give them the benefit of doubt and assume they meant strangers rather than strange, because if not there is a whole new argument to be made) hanging around gated communities like The Springs are making caretakers and families feel both uneasy and afraid ("Parents in The Springs complain of oglers and strange men", is the particular headline of this article).
The dhs5 entry fee seems to dissuade the oglers. Visit www.dm.gov.ae, 04 349 2555.