look here

interjection

Listen to me!

“Look here! That's enough!”

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extra!hear ye!listen herelook!oi!here

Meanings

interjection
  1. idiomaticListen to me!

    Look here! That's enough!

    3 more examples

    Now look here! I want you all to stop and sit down

    Then he said: “Look you here, I want a wife, and I’ll marry your daughter. But look you here,” says he, “eleven months out of the year she shall have all she likes to eat, and all the gowns she likes to get, and all the company she likes to keep; but the last month of the year she’ll have to spin five skeins every day, and if she don’t I shall kill her.”

    1890, Joseph Jacobs, “Tom Tit Tot”, in English Fairy Tales, page 2

    "Look here, you've no business to come asking for me in this way. I thought that was distinctly understood?"

    1922, Agatha Christie, “Chapter 17”, in The Secret Adversary

    Synonyms: extra!, hear ye!, listen here, look!, oi!, here

Synonyms & antonyms

interjectionListen to me!

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extra!hear ye!listen herelook!oi!here
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APA

look here. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/look%20here

MLA

“look here.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/look%20here. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “look here,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/look%20here.

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