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looker

/ˈlʊkər/
/ˈlʊkə/
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Other forms: lookers

Definitions of looker
  1. noun
    a very attractive or seductive looking woman
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    type of:
    adult female, woman
    an adult female person (as opposed to a man)
  2. noun
    a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind)
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    types:
    browser
    a viewer who looks around casually without seeking anything in particular
    bystander
    a nonparticipant spectator
    cheerer
    a spectator who shouts encouragement
    eyewitness
    a spectator who can describe what happened
    gawker
    a spectator who stares stupidly without intelligent awareness
    motion-picture fan, moviegoer
    someone who goes to see movies
    ogler
    a viewer who gives a flirtatious or lewd look at another person
    looker-on, onlooker
    someone who looks on
    playgoer, theatergoer, theatregoer
    someone who attends the theater
    rubberneck, rubbernecker
    a person who stares inquisitively
    spy
    a secret watcher; someone who secretly watches other people
    starer
    a viewer who gazes fixedly (often with hostility)
    Peeping Tom, peeper, voyeur
    a viewer who enjoys seeing the sex acts or sex organs of others
    first-nighter
    someone habitually a spectator at the openings of theatrical productions
    groundling
    in Elizabethan theater, a playgoer in the cheap standing section
    snoop, snooper
    a spy who makes uninvited inquiries into the private affairs of others
    shadow, shadower, tail
    a spy employed to follow someone and report their movements
    type of:
    beholder, observer, perceiver, percipient
    a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses
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