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look in

verb, noun — 6 senses

look in

verbalso spelled look-in
1

To visit a place or person briefly and casually.

  • You might look in next time you're passing by.
  • "Mr Carrados?" she inquired. "Mr Stokesey told me to say that he would save you the trouble by looking in here during the next interval."1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC:

look in

noun
1

Colloquial Any involvement or opportunity.

  • When it came to the tournament, our team didn't get a look in.

look-in

noun
1

Idiomatic A quick glance.

2

Idiomatic A brief visit.

3

UK, Idiomatic A chance to participate, compete, or succeed.

4

American football, Ball games, Football, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports A quick short pass to a receiver running diagonally toward the center of the field.

Related terms
look in, look in on

Entry derived from the Wiktionary, under licence CC BY-SA 4.0 — authors: page histories for look in and look-in.