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WINDOW-SHOP (window-shopped, window-shopping)

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IPA (US): 

Irregular inflected forms: window-shopped  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation, window-shopping  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

 Dictionary entry overview: What does window-shop mean? 

WINDOW-SHOP (verb)
  The verb WINDOW-SHOP has 1 sense:

1. examine the shop windows; shop with the eyes onlyplay

  Familiarity information: WINDOW-SHOP used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


WINDOW-SHOP (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they window-shop  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it window-shops  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: window-shopped  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: window-shopped  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: window-shopping  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Examine the shop windows; shop with the eyes only

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "window-shop" is one way to...):

browse; shop (shop around; not necessarily buying)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP


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