Usually means: Quick, thorough check or inspection.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word once over:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. once over: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. once-over: Merriam-Webster
  3. once-over: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. once-over: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. once-over, once-over: Collins English Dictionary
  6. once-over: Vocabulary.com
  7. once-over: Wordnik
  8. once-over: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. once-over, once over: Wiktionary
  10. once-over: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. once-over: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. once-over: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. once-over, once over: Dictionary.com
  14. once-over: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. once-over: Rhymezone
  16. once-over: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. once-over: FreeDictionary.org
  18. once-over: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. once-over: TheFreeDictionary.com

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. once-over: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. once-over: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  2. once-over, once over: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Once over)

▸ noun:  Alternative spelling of once-over [A quick clean or polish.]

Similar:
look-over, once-over, going-over, goingover, going over, overhauls, roll-over, overmake, repolishing, do-over, more...

Opposite:
thorough, detailed, comprehensive, complete, exhaustive

Types:
quick look, cursory look, glance, peek, gander, inspection, more...

Phrases:
give the once over, once over lightly, give a once over, gave the once over, more...

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Similar:
look-over, once-over, going-over, goingover, going over, overhauls, roll-over, overmake, repolishing, do-over, more...

Opposite:
thorough, detailed, comprehensive, complete, exhaustive

Types:
quick look, cursory look, glance, peek, gander, inspection, more...

Phrases:
give the once over, once over lightly, give a once over, gave the once over, more...



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