as in doll
a physically attractive person Mom says Dad was a real looker in college

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Recent Examples of looker Eleven audience members walked out of the theater, nine during the opening scene, and one on-looker lost their lunch watching the latest escapades of series mascot Art the Clown, played by David Howard Thornton. Jack Dunn, Variety, 18 Oct. 2024 The bathroom is also a looker with mosaic, colorful floors. Tj MacIas, Miami Herald, 13 Feb. 2025 Nature is captured with the brush and consumed, endlessly, at the looker’s leisure. Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025 New battery technology aside, the keyboard is quite a looker. Zackery Cuevas, PCMAG, 7 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for looker
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Noun
  • This week's installment features weird dolls, presidential decrees and even a sports question!
    Holly J. Morris, NPR, 20 June 2025
  • Jones argued that the manager knew about her disabilities before the June 2024 incident and her fear of dolls, the complaint read.
    David Chiu, People.com, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • Usually that show would have the babe of the week, whatever hot girl that Charlie [Sheen] was dating.
    Mikey O'Connell, HollywoodReporter, 19 June 2025
  • She’s heard conservative male speakers at events use the term boss babe pejoratively.
    Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 16 June 2025
Noun
  • Alternatively, get an eyeful of the Leake Street Arches—aka the London Graffiti tunnel—beneath Waterloo Station, and pop out on Lower Marsh, with its centuries-old street market and proper Lambeth vibe.
    Emma John, AFAR Media, 24 June 2025
  • Locals get an eyeful of contemporary art inside at the Seattle Art Museum as well as in the open air at the Olympic Sculpture Park.
    Amelia Mularz, Architectural Digest, 28 May 2025
Noun
  • In an early scene, poor Christian attends a dating event, having gamed the system, with his perfect numerical logic, so that all the potential lovelies are lined up at his table.
    Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 24 Apr. 2025
  • But don’t despair, my scarred and scarring lovelies.
    Matt Thompson, Spin, 10 Sep. 2023
Noun
  • Hosted by luxury natural hair brand Camille Rose (Black owned, by the way) and sponsored by Wells Fargo, the festival has become a go-to celebration of Black beauty, creativity and community.
    Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 20 June 2025
  • Formally brilliant, the pieces have been in love with beauty and have cautiously flirted with representation.
    Vince Aletti, New Yorker, 20 June 2025
Noun
  • Paggi is growing a related plant that is a showstopper thanks to its fringed, brilliant orange-red — and occasionally yellow — petals and scarlet stamens.
    Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 7 June 2025
  • Each year, Couture showcases the full breadth of fine jewelry, including everyday staples and classics to collectible and avant-garde one-of-a-kind showstoppers.
    Thomas Waller, Footwear News, 5 June 2025
Noun
  • Charlie started the week as the loneliest hottie in Fiji.
    Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 11 June 2025
  • Try five dumb hotties, which is at least three too many.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 28 May 2025
Noun
  • People and domestic animals should always avoid physical contact with wild animals such as raccoons, bats, foxes, skunks, otters, bobcats, coyotes, which carry a higher risk of human exposure and a need for rabies post-exposure treatment.
    Orlando Sentinel Staff, The Orlando Sentinel, 12 June 2025
  • Many purported sightings of mountain lions in Oklahoma turn out to be other animals, including bobcats, house cats, dogs, coyotes, foxes, deer and rabbits.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 June 2025

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“Looker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/looker. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.

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