Meanings
nounlook-out (plural look-outs)
plural look-outs
- alternativeAlternative spelling of lookout.
The gang was working without a look-out, six of them with their backs to approaching trains.
2021 September 22, Dr Mike Esbester, “Trackside safety: a permanent problem”, in RAIL, number 940, page 781 more example
Very well—very good indeed. We may get to the coast; but to cross the wide sea, we know not whither, is a dreary look-out.
1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 148
Synonyms & antonyms
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Origin
Deverbal from look out.
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