looksee

See also: look-see

English

Noun

looksee (plural looksees)

1. Alternative form of look-see
   1. Brief inspection
      • 1959, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Military Construction, Military Construction Appropriations for 1960, page 909:

        When you say that you will give a looksee, another looksee as you did at Andrews Field this morning, I interpreted that to mean you would give a looksee over the whole area.

      • 1960, The Spectator - Volume 204, page 165:

        As Sir Roy Welensky said when introducing Mr. Macmillan to the crowds gathered in and around Salisbury's most modern cinema to hear him, Rhodesians were very glad that the British Prime Minister had come to have a “looksee" at the Federation.

      • 2007, Dick Baldwin, Rodney, page 57:

        Earlier, about the same time Rodney (who Ralph thought was upstairs in his room) last jaunted to the refreshment center, Ralph was outside getting a nosy looksee at the neighbors.

   2. Lookout or scout
      • 1992, Justice quarterly - Volume 9, page 651:

        Since these activities are considered illegal in the United States, young men were often used as lookouts (a.k.a. "looksees"), guards and enforcers (a.k.a. "hatchetmen") of house rules to assure smooth operations.

Verb

looksee (third-person singular simple present looksees, present participle lookseeing, simple past looksaw, past participle lookseen)

1. Alternative form of look-see
   • 2003, Carver Wendell Waters, Dust Be the Serpent's Meat, page 141:

     He and his men can looksee over the Rivers' place.

   • 2012, Dale Johnson, Outside Protocols, page 122:

     “The office outside of here has all the databases connected to monitors. If I have access I can looksee,” Bill tells him.

   • 2013, Jack Womack, Ambient:

     He looksaw. Had Scooter enter and disassemble.

   • 2019, Liam Adair, The Taking Down of a Criminal Empire:

     Jimmy put his arm up and pointed in the general direction he thought the bad guys had taken and said into his radio, “Air one go in this general direction, for about 15 kms to looksee and report. We will follow on foot..."

Anagrams

• lookees