GET A LOOK

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does get a look mean? 

• GET A LOOK (verb)
  The verb GET A LOOK has 1 sense:

1. see something for a brief time

  Familiarity information: GET A LOOK used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GET A LOOK (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

See something for a brief time

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Synonyms:

catch a glimpse; catch sight; get a look

Hypernyms (to "get a look" is one way to...):

see (perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight)

Sentence frames:

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

 Context examples 

No, indeed: but I have long wanted to see you, and when I heard that there had been a letter from you, and that you were going to another part of the country, I thought I'd just set off, and get a look at you before you were quite out of my reach.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)