Usually means: Be cautious; danger may approach.
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General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. look out: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. look out: Merriam-Webster
  3. look out: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. look out: Vocabulary.com
  5. Look-out, look-out: Wordnik
  6. look out: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. look-out, look out: Wiktionary
  8. look out, look out: Dictionary.com
  9. Look-out: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. look out: Rhymezone
  11. look-out: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. look out: FreeDictionary.org
  13. look out: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. look-out, look out: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Look-out, look out: Legal dictionary
  2. look out: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Look-out, look out: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
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Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. look out: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Look out, look-out: Urban Dictionary
  2. Look-out: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (look out)

▸ verb:  (intransitive, idiomatic) To be vigilant and aware often as an imperative to alert a person to danger.
▸ verb:  (transitive, idiomatic) To find by looking: to hunt out.
▸ verb:  To be facing (used with "on").
▸ verb:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see look, out.
▸ verb:  (informal, intransitive) Clipping of look out for (someone)

Similar:
watch out, watch, keep an eye open, keep a lookout, keep one's eyes peeled, keep an eye out, keep one's guard up, keep an eye peeled, keep one's eyeballs peeled, keep one's head on a swivel, more...

Opposite:
look in, ignore, neglect, disregard

Phrases:
look out on, look out for, look out over, look out for number one, to look out, more...

Adjectives:
mint, try, rubber, valedictory, greet, rite, ware, be, perk, attempted, accostable

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Similar:
watch out, watch, keep an eye open, keep a lookout, keep one's eyes peeled, keep an eye out, keep one's guard up, keep an eye peeled, keep one's eyeballs peeled, keep one's head on a swivel, more...

Opposite:
look in, ignore, neglect, disregard

Phrases:
look out on, look out for, look out over, look out for number one, to look out, Look Out for Number 1, Look out circular, knowledge to look out for, on the look out, to look out for, to look out into the open, more...

Adjectives:
mint, try, rubber, valedictory, greet, rite, ware, be, perk, attempted, accostable

Colors:
    red,     yellow,     orange,     neon green,     bright blue, more...



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