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Definition of looker in English:

looker

noun

1A person who looks.
‘it depends on whether you are a listener, a looker or a doer’
- ‘An experienced realtor is trained to separate the ‘Lookers’ from the ‘Buyers.’’
- ‘The critic's job is to help a less knowledgeable looker find the beautiful thing.’
- ‘The largest online travel company converts only 5 percent of their lookers into buyers.’
- ‘While the Internet generated just 3% of all reservations, online bookings are expected to double next year and the marketing team wants to turn lookers into bookers.’
- ‘The title episode of the novel reveals the full importance of the power of sight and of being an active looker; watching God is an active rather than a passive enterprise.’
- ‘And yes, you will get lots of lookers not necessarily wanting to buy, but will if they recognise a bargain.’
- ‘She was exceedingly beautiful, fully grown yet young still, and in her eyes was a depth and maturity that never ceased to captivate the looker.’
- ‘‘I would say the number of lookers is down about a third,’ said Helen as potential buyers examined her consignment on Sunday.’
- ‘Creamy beige furnishings let lookers know this is a tasteful home.’
- ‘The bid spotter to bidder ratio was about one to one, but about 200 lookers showed up after lunch.’
- ‘Even before the Nasdaq crash, they were scrambling to make their sites easier to use and to turn more lookers into bookers.’
- ‘Almost out of reflex she glanced up at the hospital, wondering if it was possible that was where the mysterious looker stood, watching her movements.’
- ‘I wanted, in my character of listener and looker, to be enticed.’
- ‘In a random sequence of trials, the looker either looks at the back of the subject or looks away and thinks of something else.’
- ‘It has become a gathering place for experienced and new, old and young, teachers and students, painters and lookers, buyers and sellers, dreamers and doers, and everyone else.’
2with adjective A person with a specified appearance.
‘a tough looker is not necessarily a tough fighter’
- ‘She was a tough looker and she had enough berth to get through the crowds easily.’
- ‘A big tough looker stood up on top of the car behind John and me.’
1. 2.1informal A very attractive person.
  ‘she was a real looker, good for the eyes’
  ‘Since she's a looker, he certainly would have remembered her face and name.’
  ‘He wasn't much of a looker, but the second you started talking to him he took your breath away with all his useless knowledge.’
  ‘She returned his look. ‘I'm twenty-eight, and not much of a looker, now am I!’’
  ‘She was a looker and he was counting the minutes before he could spend some ‘quality time ‘with her alone.’’
  ‘To most girls, he was a looker… but to me; he was just Ryan, my perverted best friend.’
  ‘You know, you too have really turned out to be quite a looker since I first met you.’
  ‘Bruce, you'll be quite the looker, I think, when you get older.’
  ‘I like you and all and there is no doubt that you are a looker but for right now at least, I want to be your friend.’
  ‘The girl was a real looker but I don't like the look of the other guy.’
  ‘I know she may be a real looker, but the exotic girls are the ones that hurt you the worst.’
  ‘‘You could be a real looker if you wanted to be, Archie,’ she said.’
  ‘‘That one's a real looker,’ she heard from the men's direction as she sat down opposite Gerald, who seemed oblivious to the whole thing.’
  ‘He smiles and his eyes get all squinty. ‘You're gonna be a looker someday, I can tell.’
  ‘Both brothers are lookers, and Cameron is particularly drawn to Jesse's enigmatic reserve and ‘thoughtlessly perfect body.’’
  ‘I don't doubt your mother is a looker, he usually went for the pretty ones.’
  ‘She was a real looker too, blonde hair, dyed I'm guessing, honey brown eyes, flawless complexion, and a gorgeous body.’
  ‘I'm certainly no looker, but my short dark hair and green eyes definitely look good on my sculpted face, and I keep in shape.’
  ‘Val grew to be a real looker, eventually moved to Los Angeles and became an actress.’
  ‘But you don't need to be nice, I'm never going to be a looker like some of those cheerleaders.’
  ‘Sure she's quite the looker but you and I both know what really happened.’
  beauty, beautiful woman, dream, vision, picture, pin-up, goddess, venus, siren, charmer, enchantress, seductress
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