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lookers-on

lookers-on is the plural of looker-on.

Meaning of looker-on

Noun

looker-on (plural lookers-on)

  1. A spectator, onlooker.
    • After dancing with each other at a proper number of balls, the young people justified these opinions, and an engagement, with a due reference to the absent Sir Thomas, was entered into, much to the satisfaction of their respective families, and of the general lookers-on of the neighbourhood, who...1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter IV, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 78

Phrases with lookers-on

Questions about lookers-on

What is lookers-on the plural of?
Lookers-on is the plural of looker-on.

Words near lookers-on in the dictionary

  1. looker
  2. looker-on
  3. looker-upper
  4. looker-uppers
  5. lookers
  6. lookers-on
  7. lookers-on see most of the game
  8. lookership
  9. lookes
  10. lookest
  11. looketh

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