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look-in, n.
[f. look n. + in adv.]
1. A hasty glance; a peep. Hence, a short visit.
1847L. Hunt Men, Women & B. I. xv. 293 The Induction to the ‘Mirror of Magistrates’ is a look in at the infernal regions. 1865Dickens Mut. Fr. iv. iii, He has given me another look-in, to make sure of..our stock-in-trade being correct.
2. colloq. An opportunity to take part in something, usually with a chance of success; a share of attention.
1870Bell's Life 12 Feb. 3/6 If Fawcett imagines he has got a look in, Mullins will fight him for all the money he can get together. 1898Westm. Gaz. 12 July 10/2 For the Beaufort Stakes Mr. L. de Rothschild should have a good look in. 1902Kipling Traffics & Discov. (1904) 27 We might even be able to give our Native Army a look in. 1905Official Guide Nat. Assoc. Professional Baseball Leagues 58 With a team which never had a look-in for anything better than cellar championship..the club made money. 1911G. B. Shaw Getting Married 244 We shall none of us have much of a look-in when Mrs. George comes. 1916Lit. Digest 1 Jan. 7/2 Between Colonel Roosevelt and the diplomatic correpondence of this epoch the dictionary business is getting a look-in all right. 1916‘Taffrail’ Pincher Martin xvii. 330 It's time we had a look in at something. 1936Times Lit. Suppl. 17 Oct. 837/1 The faithful, unmarried lover who never gets a look-in. 1964Word Study Apr. 1/1 Nor would a quack bonesetter get a look-in at a position in a modern clinic. 1968Listener 26 Sept. 390/1 An acknowledged modern artist gets a look-in at illustration 52. |