window licker

noun

A person who peers closely into or out of a window, pressing his or her face to the glass.

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Meanings

nounwindow licker (plural window lickers)

plural window lickers

  1. slangA person who peers closely into or out of a window, pressing his or her face to the glass.
  2. offensiveslang(often as a term of abuse) A person who is severely mentally or physically disabled; (in extended use) a person regarded as simple-minded or incapable.

    I bet his family are a bunch of window lickers.

    2005, Rob Blonde, T-Shirt Theory: What Girls Have in Common with T-Shirts
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    ...because too much of this Far-Right-Racial-Purity malarkey and you'll end up as a nation of window-lickers.

    2008, T Edward Devilish, Kingdom of the Burning Cow
Cite this entry
APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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