lookup

or look-up

[ look-uhp ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

an act or instance of looking something up, as information in a reference book or an online database.

Origin of lookup¹

1945–50 for an earlier sense; noun use of verb phrase look up

F—d, the Clerk of the Arraigns, brought off Lookup when indicted for perjury.

Lookup, a notorious gambler, was struck down by apoplexy when playing at this game.

Lookup, as well as Colonel Charteris,—of notorious memory in the annals of gaming and debauchery,—was from the north of the Tweed.

The eye of which Lookup had lost the use appeared as perfect as the other, even to a near observer.

April 18, 2024petrichor

[pet-ri-kawr]

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