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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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
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
