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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
looker
noun
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▪ And there's no getting away from it, he's a real looker.
▪ She must be pushing forty, he thought, but she's still a good looker.
▪ She was a looker, that one, and I guess it went to her head.
▪ She was a good looker, if a bit flighty for these parts.
▪ She was not a looker, but her Hard Number pose turned him on somehow.
▪ You spot this hot looker across the room, this real babe, so you wander over and start politicking.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Looker

Looker \Look"er\, n.

  1. One who looks.

  2. 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 sattest thou an idle looker-on ?
    --Fairfax.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
looker

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 word for "television viewer."

Wiktionary
looker

n. 1 (context literally English) One that looks (actively), watches. 2 One having a specific look, appearance. 3 (context slang English) Someone or something who is remarkably good-looking.

WordNet
looker

  1. 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]

  2. a very attractive or seductive looking woman [syn: smasher, stunner, knockout, beauty, ravisher, sweetheart, peach, lulu, mantrap, dish]

Wikipedia
Looker

Looker is a 1981 science fiction film written and directed by Michael Crichton. It starred Albert Finney, Susan Dey, and James Coburn. Former NFL linebacker Tim Rossovich was featured as the villain's main henchman.

The film is a suspense/science fiction piece that comments upon and satirizes media, advertising, TV's effects on the populace, and a ridiculous standard of beauty.

Though spare in visual effects, the film is notable for being the first commercial film to attempt to make a realistic computer-generated character, for the model named Cindy. It was also the first film to create three-dimensional (3D) shading with a computer, months before the release of the better-known Tron.

Looker (comics)

Looker (Emily "Lia" Briggs) is a fictional character, a superhero in the DC Universe of comic books. The character's first appearance was in Batman & the Outsiders #25.

Looker (Software)

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.

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.