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What is "look-in"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
look-in
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
get
▪ When it comes to the 3,000 metres steeplechase, no other country gets a look-in.
▪ Torque-steer wouldn't get a look-in.
▪ Powys &038; Jones have real promise but can't get a look-in.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ The party hardly got a look-in.
▪ Torque-steer wouldn't get a look-in.
▪ When it comes to the 3,000 metres steeplechase, no other country gets a look-in.
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look-in

n. 1 (context idiomatic English) A quick glance. 2 (context idiomatic English) A brief visit. 3 (context idiomatic UK English) A chance to participate, compete, or succeed. 4 (context American football English) A quick short pass to a receiver running diagonally toward the center of the field.

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Look-in

Look-in was a children's magazine centred on ITV's television programmes in the United Kingdom, and subtitled "The Junior TVTimes". It ran from 9 January 1971 to 12 March 1994. Briefly in 1985 a BBC-based rival appeared called BEEB; another was launched in 1989, Fast Forward, which went on to outsell Look-in.

Usage examples of "look-in".

He is quite in my black books, as I shall tell him, for he promised to give us a look-in when he came back to Bath, and never a glimpse of him did we get.