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Definition of just looking

—used to tell a store clerk that one is looking at the things being sold in the store but does not plan to buy anything specific
  • The clerk asked if I needed any help, but I told him I was just looking.

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just play

  1. : having a basis in or conforming to fact or reason : reasonable

  2. : conforming to a standard of correctness : proper

  3. : faithful to an original

  1. : exactly, precisely

  2. : very recently

  3. : by a very small margin : barely

  1. : archaic variant of joust

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look play looking

  1. : to make sure or take care (that something is done)

  2. : to ascertain by the use of one's eyes

  3. : to exercise the power of vision upon : examine

  1. : the act of looking

  2. : glance

  3. : the expression of the countenance

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