window-shopper love

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  • noun A person who window-shops.

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Examples

  • Yet, there is no working door, leaving the viewer as a perpetual window-shopper.

    Jim Hedges: Artworld Gift Guide for the Holidays Jim Hedges 2010

  • Yet, there is no working door, leaving the viewer as a perpetual window-shopper.

    Jim Hedges: Artworld Gift Guide for the Holidays Jim Hedges 2010

  • I recognized the covetous gaze of a window-shopper.

    Fatal Circle Linda Robertson 2010

  • The Toe-Dipper is a next-step from the window-shopper, as they actively communicate their political interests in social media.

    The Social Media Voter Stutzman, Fred 2008

  • He was just another window-shopper, gazing bemusedly at a shelf of silver cigar cases, when he felt himself bumped and then jostled on one side.

    The Blackstone Key Rose Melikan 2008

  • The window-shopper represents the vast majority of social media voters; they participate from the sidelines - viewing videos, watching friends take political stances in social networks - but they do not use social media to pass political messages.

    The Social Media Voter Stutzman, Fred 2008

  • He was just another window-shopper, gazing bemusedly at a shelf of silver cigar cases, when he felt himself bumped and then jostled on one side.

    The Blackstone Key Rose Melikan 2008

  • He was just another window-shopper, gazing bemusedly at a shelf of silver cigar cases, when he felt himself bumped and then jostled on one side.

    The Blackstone Key Rose Melikan 2008

  • The event was defiantly not for the timid window-shopper.

    Fashionistas Strike Retail Gold at The Billion Dollar Babes Sample Sale 2006

  • They rely massively on window-shopper traffic that finds them through Google searches, and sooner or later Google is going to enforce its own policies of not linking to further searches they like to link directly to actual content, Technorati is going to disappear from Google search, its pagerank is going to tank, and the well is going to dry up very fast.

    The State of the Art: Technorati's "Authority" Jeremiah McNichols 2007

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