shop around
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.83 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
1
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To actively search and compare options before making a selection or choice of vendor.
Intransitive verb
verb
To actively make a search for an alternative choice of something one has, owns, or wants, without it necessarily involving buying or selling anything.
Intransitive verb
Example Sentences
- "He's gone to shop around for a new car."
- "She's shopping around for a new boyfriend."
- "Before you ask some girl for her hand now / Keep your freedom for as long as you can now / My mama told me, you better shop around."
- "Girl no longer do I / Have to shop around any more, no no no / I've found that once in a lifetime / Girl that I've been searching for"
- "Federal courts look very disapprovingly on local D.A.s shopping around from grand jury to grand jury to et the indictments they want."
- "He's shopping around his book to several studios. He hopes to get a movie deal."