window-shop

1. 1.

   examine the shop windows; shop with the eyes only

   Broadershop

Questions about window-shop

What does window-shop mean?

window-shop means "examine the shop windows; shop with the eyes only".

How many syllables are in window-shop?

window-shop has 3 syllables: win-dow--shop. The stress falls on "win".

Is window-shop a common word?

window-shop is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.