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  • Then, I opened the window, because I'm a looky-loo who likes to hear what people in potentially deadly situations are talking about.

    Like There's A Guy With A Knife On My Lawn 2009

  • But, like any culture, spend enough time around the center, and the local crew who run the pods will be kind enough to grant you a sort of “weekend pass,” so you feel just a little less like a looky-loo tourist.

    You haven’t been a Mechwarrior until you’ve tried this: 2009

  • It's a movie easily overlooked, if not for this looky-loo who wanted to stare at Rourke's swollen face.

    Nancy Snow: The Wrestler 2009

  • I watched with the morbid fascination of a looky-loo at a twelve-car pile-up, bodies strewn across the freeway.

    Death, Deceit & Some Smooth Jazz Claudia Mair Burney 2008

  • And, I, a Mom & Pop, am supposed to be profusely grateful because of all the free publicity, I will, supposedly get, once looky-loo Mom puts the pictures up on her well-traveled Blog.

    That light you loved last April. Ann Althouse 2008

  • (It's a private farm, so people just driving around the property on their own for a looky-loo is a big NO NO).

    haloaskew Diary Entry haloaskew 2005

  • Built in a Spanish Mission style, with dusky earth tones, the three-story shopping center catered exclusively to the exploding Chinese immigrant community, although on occasion, a looky-loo gringo would wander through, bug-eyed at the panorama of this Asian Disneyland.

    Excerpt: The Jasmine Trade by Denise Hamilton 2001

  • Despite the property's notoriety and the looming criminal trial, there was no pilgrimage of Jackson fans, not even a lone "looky-loo," as people in Los Angeles call curiosity seekers.

    CNN.com 2011

  • I checked them out whilst I was in the looky-loo mode with the wranglers and I must say that I think jeep has a winner with with one.

    Vortex Media Group Pool Runner 2010

  • On the other hand, more sophisticated or less-secretive religious groups take charge of our looky-loo culture and manage the tours for their own profit.

    Las Vegas Sun Stories: All Sun Headlines 2010

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