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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. One that looks, especially a spectator or an onlooker.
  2. n. Slang A very attractive person.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. One who looks or watches; one who seeks or explores.
  2. n. Specifically.
  3. n. A shepherd or herdsman
  4. n. An inspector.
  5. n. See louker.

Wiktionary

  1. n. literally One that looks (actively), watches.
  2. n. One having a specific look, appearance.
  3. n. slang Someone or something who is remarkably good-looking.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. One who looks.
  2. n. A person who is physically very attractive, especially a beautiful woman.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind)
  2. n. a very attractive or seductive looking woman

Etymologies

  1. to look + -er (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “In fact, she was a looker from a certain angle, a little bit like that curvy sweetheart who died in a car crash around a year ago.”

    Archive 2004-06-01

  • “Witness the perfect marriage of ingenious design and user-friendly functions, this good-looker is set to be a head-turner at this year’s Basel show.”

    Boing Boing

  • “He's certainly not what the boys call a looker and his face doesn't inspire me with much confidence.”

    The Lure of the North

  • “When all is said and done, a looker is a keeper because you can still keep looking even if she turns out to be a typical snake with tits.”

    Army Rumour Service

  • “Molly De Wolf Swensen is all blonde hair and long legs -- a real "looker," as they used to say.”

    The Washington Post: 'American Idol': Season 10, episode 3

  • “When the ladies discuss the "looker" theperceptionis far from favorable.”

    The vet who did not vet

  • “It only requires spending some time to look at the 'looker' and realizing that behind it all, the 'BIG' looker is the real, impersonal, and ever-present YOU.”

    Triggering the Enlightenment Virus

  • “One thing I never really understood in previous readings was the whole "Sarai is my sister" ploy that Abram trotted out ... she really must have been a looker which is something else I never considered.”

    The Call to Abram

  • “If you were a "looker," like Win, the best thing that could happen to you was never to come within eyeshot of”

    Winnie Childs The Shop Girl

  • “No wonder they want a 'looker' to take the taste of him out of their mouths.”

    It Happened in Egypt

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  1. on-looker
  2. bystander
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