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lookie-loo
- a customer who enjoys looking at merchandise but has no intention of buying US, 1978
- Looky-loos, that breed of bird that made it an evening out going around drooling over items they could never afford. — Robert Campbell, Juice, pp. 228–229, 1988
- Hopefully there’d be a lot more when the finals got under way, but of course most of the tourists were looky-loos. — Joseph Wambaugh, Floaters, p. 17, 1996
- Made famous by a series of commercials for Twentieth Century real estate. — Editors of Ben is Dead, Retrohell, p. 115, 1997
- an inquisitive observer US, 1989
A Los Angeles term, personified in the character Look-Loo Woman in Quentin Tarantino’s 1994 film Pulp Fiction. - She had noticed, however, that no one, not even the nosiest Lookie-Loo, ever looked into the drier or under the bed. — Barbara Abercrombie, Good Riddance, p. 20, 1979
- — Pamela Munro, U.C.L.A. Slang, p. 56, 1989
- The lookie-lous planted themselves. — John Ridley, Everybody Smokes in Hell, p. 136, 1999
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