look around

1. 1.

   look about oneself

   “look around to see whether you can find the missing document”

   Broaderlook

Questions about look around

What does look around mean?

look around means "look about oneself".

Is look around a common word?

look around is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.