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window-shopping

  • present participle
    of window-shop.
    window-shop
    verb (used without object)
    to look at articles in the windows of stores without making any purchases.
  • a word derived from window-shop.
    window-shop
    verb (used without object)
    to look at articles in the windows of stores without making any purchases.

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"I love that you can just walk in and sort of experience it from the street," said Agata Seferynska, a Polish student who came window-shopping with a friend.

From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2025

Most of my window-shopping nowadays is conducted online, where book covers are reduced to flat, rectangular images that are merely elements on a page.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 2023

I walked down Third Avenue, window-shopping and people-watching.

From New York Times ● Oct. 24, 2021

Over Memorial Day weekend, Abilene Hagee could look out of Trail’s End Bookstore and see throngs of people window-shopping along the main street.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 7, 2021

For half an hour they sat comfortably in their chairs and watched men and women walking, witnessed one dog fight, cruised slowly up and down, looking into windows of homes, window-shopping in the business section.

From Empire by Clifford D. Simak

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