look out

Definitions

1. 1

   To be vigilant and aware often as an imperative to alert a person to danger.

   • While you're in the city center, look out for the dodgy street vendors.
   • Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer‘cottage’ and if you don't look out there's likely to be some nice, lively dog taking an interest in your underpinning.”
2. 2

   To find by looking

   To find by looking: to hunt out.

   • Morgan pulled a Greek lexicon toward him (he used a Greek-German), to look out a word, instead of asking it of Pemberton.
   • Then she straightened the kitchen, lit the lamp, mended the fire, looked out the washing for the next day, and put it to soak.
   • I had not seen her since long before the war, and I had to look out her address in the telephone-book.
3. 3

   To be facing.

   • A spacious room that looks out on the sea.
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   1. 4

      Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

      Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see look, out.

      • On the morning of the eighth day, he found himself looking out across the river.
   2. 5

      Ellipsis of look out for (someone)

      • Hey man, I know it costs four dollars but I only have three. Can you please look out?
   3. 6

      To be supportive or protective of someone.

      • You better look out for your little brother.

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