Definition of "looker-on" []

• A spectator; an onlooker. (noun)

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• "Most recently, Phoenix jumped off a stage during a performance to go after a looker-on who had been heckling him in Miami."
• "With the advantage of looker-on and a very deep experience of Northerners, he had noted that Ismail was lying and that Saunders was growing doubtful, although both men concealed the truth with what was very close to being art."
• "In short, I have acted in all parts of my life as a looker-on, which is the character I intend to preserve in this paper."