looker

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/ ˈlʊk ər /

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noun

a person who looks.

Informal. a very attractive person.

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Origin of looker

1300–50; Middle English; 1900–05 for def. 2; see look, -er¹

Words nearby looker

look black, look blank, look daggers, lookdown, look down on, looker, looker-on, look for, look forward to, Look Homeward, Angel, lookie-likie

How to use looker in a sentence

Look, it’s not your fault your router isn’t much of a looker.
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In any case, she was a looker and Horace—with his blue eyes and his sweet-talking ways—won her over.
Those Kansas City Blues: A Family History|Katie Baker|October 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The early looker-in might have made a useful study of these shaky epistles,—scrawls painfully executed by milliners and toy-women.
A Cursory History of Swearing|Julian Sharman
He was a singer of comic songs at "smokers," and a frequent looker-in at the shilling dances at the Holburn Town Hall after class.
In Accordance with the Evidence|Oliver Onions

He got up and, like one who is but a helpless on-looker in a fevered dream, he went to the bars and gazed out.
The Devil-Tree of El Dorado|Frank Aubrey
In nothing is this more clear (to the looker-on at the game) than in the endless disputes concerning restrictions on commerce.
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce|Ambrose Bierce
Well, my notion is that a little good-natured fun never hurts a pretty girl—and they say this one is some looker!
Blow The Man Down|Holman Day

British Dictionary definitions for looker

looker

/ (ˈlʊkə) /

noun informal

a person who looks

a very attractive person, esp a woman or girl

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looker

noun

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British Dictionary definitions for looker

noun informal