Definition
To be vigilant and aware often as an imperative to alert a person to danger.
To find by looking: to hunt out.
In Context
- "While you're in the city center, look out for the dodgy street vendors."
- "Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer‘cottage’ and if you don't look out there's likely to be some nice, lively dog taking an interest in your underpinning.”"
- "Morgan pulled a Greek lexicon toward him (he used a Greek-German), to look out a word, instead of asking it of Pemberton."
- "Then she straightened the kitchen, lit the lamp, mended the fire, looked out the washing for the next day, and put it to soak."
- "I had not seen her since long before the war, and I had to look out her address in the telephone-book."
Also Said As
- take care
- watch out