NOUN
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someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor)
he could be Gingrich's double
she's the very image of her mother
ADJECTIVE
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resembling closely
they have look-alike cars
How To Use look-alike In A Sentence
- There were Dorothy look-alikes inspired by The Wizard of Oz, witches with broomsticks, and numerous bits of arbitrary, minimally edited business.
- I've seen logo look-alikes in some stores in my mall that are hard pressed to distinguish from the real thing.
- A simple biophysical model they developed indicates that in picking out the target molecule from a crowd of look-alikes, the recognizer has an advantage if it is slightly off-target. 2007 July - Telic Thoughts
- Counterfeiters and duplicators snap them up and hours later, faithful copies, often complete with look-alike packaging, are being peddled on street corners and in flea-markets. MPAA August releases
- The 25-year-old rocks a vintage-glam look, which manages to avoid the campiness of turning her into a Marilyn Monroe look-alike, and is seen straddling a bunny-shaped chair that strategically covers her private parts. Lindsay Lohan's Playboy Cover Leaked Online (PHOTO)
- I was with the president of a Penn State campus in China, his closest celebrity look-alike is Bill Cosby, when we were in tourist areas people would pull on him in the exact same way they do on the characters in Disneyworld. Skeletor beefcake (link roundup)
- The water-damaged casket was exhumed in 1981 to resolve a conspiracy theory that a Russian look-alike had been buried in place of Oswald, and he was reburied in a new coffin. Oswald's brother sues for proceeds from coffin sale
- She was a classic beauty - slightly an Audrey Hepburn look-alike, but with less childish a face, more serious and studious.
- Stockbroker Belt. The three married Beatles and their look-alike wives own large homes in Weybridge, part of the suburban "stockbroker belt, " 40 minutes from London.
- - Interesting and weird characters: a short high school girl who looks like an elementary student, a manager with lots of attitude, a girl who carries a katana around, a Sanji look-alike chef, an easy going chef, and an androphobic girl. Anime Nano!