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lookie-lou

lookie-lou is the alternative spelling of looky-loo.

Meaning of looky-loo

Noun

looky-loo (plural looky-loos)

  1. (informal) One who looks or stares; a gawker; a nosy or overly inquisitive person.
    • After the accident, I had to shoo away a bunch of looky-loos.
  2. (informal) A look at something; a glance; an opportunity to look around.
    • I brought the inspector in for a looky-loo.
  3. (slang) A person who comes into a store and looks around but doesn't buy anything.
    • I was busy all day, but barely made any commissions because I spent all my time with a couple looky-loos.

Forms of lookie-lou

plurallookie-lous

Questions about lookie-lou

What is lookie-lou the alternative spelling of?
Lookie-lou is the alternative spelling of looky-loo.

Words near lookie-lou in the dictionary

  1. lookie
  2. lookie lookie man
  3. lookie lookie men
  4. lookie-loo
  5. lookie-loos
  6. lookie-lou
  7. lookie-lous
  8. lookin
  9. lookin'
  10. looking
  11. looking a fright

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lookie-lou (page history and authors); looky-loo (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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