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What is "window-shopping"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
window-shopping
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Sometimes I go window-shopping after work.
▪ We didn't have any money but we enjoyed window-shopping in Fifth Avenue.
Wiktionary
window-shopping

n. (context idiomatic English) The browsing of shop windows without any intention of buying.

WordNet
window-shopping
window-shop

  1. v. examine the shop windows; shop with the eyes only

  2. [also: window-shopping, window-shopped]

Usage examples of "window-shopping".

After lunch they had wandered around the newer part of Arles, window-shopping mostly, but Nicky had bought a handful of postcards to send off to Arch, her crew and friends in New York.

They ate calamari, washing it down with cool lagers before walking through the narrow streets, dodging from awning to awning, window-shopping.

He dragged Jeremy around the corner, in among spacers window-shopping and bar-hopping, ran through, startled outcries in their wake.

I mimed leisurely window-shopping between the shrines, but kept my body language sufficiently unfriendly to deter even the loneliest Westerner from attempting to strike up a conversation.