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look-see
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
look-see
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ We moved in closer for a look-see.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He got permission to fly home to Detroit for a look-see at his troubled right ankle.
▪ He stood up sleek and tall, hunched down, and launched himself for a closer look-see.
▪ Leese advised flying by very fast and taking a quick look-see.
▪ We changed our course when we got nearer, and went Over for a look-see.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
look-see

"inspection," 1865, "Pidgin-like formation" [OED], and first used in representations of English as spoken by Chinese, from look (v.) + see (v.).

Wiktionary
look-see

n. (context informal English) A brief examination, a peek or glance.

Usage examples of "look-see".

Detective Bruno Sancino slipped the pizza delivery boy a double sawbuck, told him to keep the change and then gave the seventh floor hallway a quick look-see before closing the door and bolting it shut.

Foss here heard the commotion in town, and we decided to come out here and have a look-see.

Styxnymphsville, Hyperborea, and Hesperia from my itinerary to give us an extra week in Joppa and time for a quick look-see at Thessalian Larissa.

The Bobcat girl was visible every now and then, whenever she popped her head up for a quick look-see.

Here he sits on his ditty box, the grand high mucky-muck of Lend-Lease, never gets a look-see at what's really happening and here you come along, and go might out and get the dope.