look-see

Synonyms for look-see

noun visual examination

noun. glance

noun. brief look

noun. brief look

"inspection," 1865, "Pidgin-like formation" [OED], and first used in representations of English as spoken by Chinese, from look (v.) + see (v.).

Im going back to the office to have a look-see at the books and files.

After you went to bed that night, I drove up here to have a look-see.

Look-see, Chelakee braves make haste for load horses down yonder now!

The next morning we turned out early, and got our first real “look-see.”

Do you think I have forgotten the day we were out having a look-see, five of us, and spotted five Albatrosses below?

His need was to establish himself as a moderately square tourist on his way to take a look-see at highly publicized Russia.

The pilot licked dry lips and wondered what would happen if he swung down there and just walked in for a look-see.

That swift opening run through the outer portal of Hell Gate offered about the only chance I had for a “look-see.”

That was a snap judgment, formed after the briefest kind of a “look-see,” and it may well be that I was over optimistic.

When you carry weapons like that for protection never put it in your pocket without a look-see.