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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A spectator; an onlooker.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who looks on; a spectator.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A spectator, onlooker.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun someone who looks on

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Examples

  • Most recently, Phoenix jumped off a stage during a performance to go after a looker-on who had been heckling him in Miami.

    Joaquin Phoenix is my hero 2009

  • With the advantage of looker-on and a very deep experience of Northerners, he had noted that Ismail was lying and that Saunders was growing doubtful, although both men concealed the truth with what was very close to being art.

    In The Time Of Light dj barber 2010

  • Now I was a mere looker-on; seldom an unmoved, and sometimes an angry spectator, but still a spectator only, of the pursuits of mankind.

    Chronicles of the Canongate 2008

  • Helen's relative inconsequentiality to the overall group dynamic - she's neither protagonist nor antagonist, more of a looker-on than a participant - renders her death as more of a side dish than an entree... but what a side dish.

    31 Screams: Marilyn Eastman Arbogast 2008

  • In short, I have acted in all parts of my life as a looker-on, which is the character I intend to preserve in this paper.

    Looking back to 1711 2008

  • A looker-on is sending 2 men with rifles to pursue Daly and kill him.

    Archive 2007-07-01 sfmike 2007

  • A looker-on is sending 2 men with rifles to pursue Daly and kill him.

    Dark Days at City Hall sfmike 2007

  • English tourists; and they always got up this farce, because, to avoid a street fight, the kindhearted looker-on would generally employ and pay them both, and perhaps give them a tip in addition to calm them down.

    The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton 2006

  • Since both GWB and the position we're hiring for are in fields radically different from my own, I guess I'll also have a third role this year: that of looker-on in the Renaissance market.

    Ferule & Fescue Flavia 2006

  • Since both GWB and the position we're hiring for are in fields radically different from my own, I guess I'll also have a third role this year: that of looker-on in the Renaissance market.

    Archive 2006-09-01 Flavia 2006

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