window-shop
verb (used without object)
to look at articles in the windows of stores without making any purchases.
window-shopper
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a word derived from
window-shop.
Example Sentences
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He is a kind of ideological window-shopper; or, like Pooh-Bah, a Leader of the Opposition, he feels he must resist what he approves of as First Lord of the Treasury.
From Time Magazine Archive
Relatives In Portland, Maine, police finally restored to his family a wandering little window-shopper who had somehow lost his bearings: nine-year-old Robert E. Peary III, exploratory grandson of the late Arctic explorer.
From Time Magazine Archive
That he is a notorious window-shopper, recently priced Radio City.
From Time Magazine Archive
