What is "once-over"

Usage examples of "once-over".

Harriet gave him the real once-over as he and Ole Golly stood on the top step smiling and chatting to each other.

His arm was curled around Muffit Two, who maintained a droid alertness, even giving Apollo and Serina a fast once-over when they entered the room.

Ace gave that wicked grin of his as he gave Rhea a once-over that made her stomach tight.

The woman flashed a camera-perfect smile, giving Rik a quick, appreciative once-over in the process.

They swooped in and gave Debs a once-over, and they moved her onto their gurney, raised it up, and began to wheel her toward the waiting ambulance.

Preproduction physical exams are routine nonevents, perfunctory once-overs by doctors working for studio insurance carriers.

Then he took his workpiece out of the coals with a pair of pincers, gave it a quick once-over, nodded, and picked up a smoothed nine-foot pole with his other hand.

After giving the bucket of yabbies the once-over, she said with a definite lack of enthusiasm.

Ryan scratched Boyd behind the ears, swiveled his feet to the floor, and gave me a once-over.

Jossie, who got a shrewd once-over for aerodynamic lines and a shake from a hand like a piece of calloused teak.

Both Draka gave their mounts a quick once-over before turning over the reins, and Yolande slipped a piece of hard sugar to hers.

Giving me a careful once-over, he said I looked just like Moose Skowron, Yankee first baseman and my favorite player.

She gave him the cop once-over from head to toe, taking in the mussed hair, the gray skin, the bags sagging under bloodshot eyes.

Wendell gives the Nikon a quick once-over, removes the lens cap, and cranks a new roll of film into place before moving with slow, quiet steps past the bikes and along the side of the ruined structure.

The other half-dozen Finnish officers were folding their maps, giving their notebooks final once-overs before they departed to rebrief their subordinates.