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look-alike N. Amer.
[look v. 9 + alike a.]
Something or someone that closely resembles another in appearance. Also attrib. or as adj.
1947Time 1 Dec. 78 Lisle Maxwell Sanders..is often called ‘Mr. Kieran’ for his famed look-alike. 1949J. Roeburt Tough Cop xvi. 180 There were enough look⁓alikes in the flat photography of the period to puzzle me. 1961M. Beadle These Ruins are Inhabited (1963) ii. 31 Those look-a-likes, the two-shilling piece and the half-crown. 1969L. Greenbaum Out of Shape (1970) xxv. 175 Asher was flanked by his pregnant wife and a long-haired student. Except for the wife's stomach, the two women were look-alikes. 1972Islander (Victoria, B.C.) 27 Feb. 10/3 This is the critical test, such misleading lookalikes as serpentine and its brother, bowenite, permitting no passage of light even through the finest sliver. 1974Publishers Weekly 11 Feb. 62/3 He meets Gabrielle, Simone's look-alike sister, and falls in love all over again. |