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looker
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Wikipedia
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Looker Data Sciences (doing business as Looker ) is an American computer software company headquartered in Santa Cruz, California . Looker markets a data exploration and discovery business intelligence platform.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind); "the spectators applauded the performance"; "television viewers"; "sky watchers discovered a new star" [syn: spectator , witness , viewer , watcher ] a very attractive ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Looker \Look"er\, n. One who looks. A person who is physically very attractive, especially a beautiful woman. Looker-on , a spectator; an onlooker; one that looks on, but has no agency or part in an affair. Did not this fatal war affront thy coast, Yet ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English locere "one engaged in looking," agent noun from look (v.). Meaning "one who watches over" is from c.1300; that of "one who has a certain appearance" is late 15c. Slang meaning "attractive woman" attested from 1893. Looker-in (1927) was an early ...
Usage examples of looker.
Delirious young women of the silk-stocking class did not arrive at the Sawtooth every morning, and it was rumored already amongst the men that she was some looker, which naturally whetted their interest in her.
A girl named Candace Michalski, good looker, seventeen years old, just disappeared the other evening.
Pierre, outside of Lily, are no such lookers as will get Ziegfeld heated up.
But nathelesse whilst all the lookers onHim dead behight, as he to all appeard,All vnawares he started vp anon,As one that had out of a dreame bene reard,And fresh assayld his foe.
For from his fearefull eyes two fierie beames,More sharpe then points of needles did proceede,Shooting forth farre away two flaming streames,Full of sad powre, that poysonous bale did breedeTo all, that on him lookt without good heed,And secretly his enemies did slay:Like as the Basiliske of serpents seede,From powrefull eyes close venim doth conuayInto the lookers hart, and killeth farre away.
While a little wary yet of lurking Fallouts, Francis had sufficiently recovered from his initial fright to realize that the shelter, notably the desk and the lookers, might well be teeming with rich relics of an age which the world had, for the most part, deliberately chosen to forget.
Funny, but the best picture he had of her was the one George Jakes had given him: A real looker .
And she wasn't so much the looker that Harry and George Jakes had thought she might be.
Duddy took a taxi, watching the snow and the rush of lights outside, searching for lookers among the window-shoppers, gazing at their legs and in his mind's eye stripping the juicier ones down to black lace panties.
I suppose the lookers bring money that helps pay the cost of rebuilding.