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looks over one's shoulder

looks over one's shoulder is the third-person singular simple present indicative of look over one's shoulder.

Meaning of look over one's shoulder

Verb

look over one's shoulder (third-person singular simple present looks over one's shoulder, present participle looking over one's shoulder, simple past and past participle looked over one's shoulder)

  1. (idiomatic) To check obsessively out of excessive caution or fear of a perceived danger.
    • This is a cutthroat industry. You have to constantly look over your shoulder.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see look, over, shoulder.
    • Once I visited the Kings Cross office on an extremely foggy day and about 3.45 I was looking over the shoulder of the Section Controller for the Kings Cross-Finsbury Park stretch.1962 May, G. Freeman Allen, “Traffic control on the Great Northern Line”, in Modern Railways, page 343

Questions about looks over one's shoulder

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Looks over one's shoulder is the third-person singular simple present indicative of look over one's shoulder.

Words near looks over one's shoulder in the dictionary

  1. looks one's best
  2. looks out
  3. looks out for number one
  4. looks out for someone
  5. looks over
  6. looks over one's shoulder
  7. looks past
  8. looks right through
  9. looks round
  10. looks shy
  11. looks snappy

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