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noun 
  1. rapid involuntary eye movement, usually lateral
  • 1970: For months Travis had seen his solitary figure, shoulders hunched inside the flying jacket, in more and more newsreels, as an extra in war films, and then as a patient in an elegant ophthalmic film on " JG Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition
Etymology: Modern Latin, from Greek "nodding, drowsiness", from "nod, be sleepy".

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