window licker

English

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Noun

window licker (plural window lickers)

1. (slang) A person who peers closely into or out of a window, pressing their face to the glass.
2. (slang, offensive) (often as a term of abuse) A person who is severely mentally or physically disabled; (in extended use) a person regarded as simple-minded or incapable.
   • 2005, Rob Blonde, T-Shirt Theory: What Girls Have in Common with T-Shirts:

     I bet his family are a bunch of window lickers.

   • 2008, T Edward Devilish, Kingdom of the Burning Cow:

     ...because too much of this Far-Right-Racial-Purity malarkey and you'll end up as a nation of window-lickers.

References

• “window licker”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “window licker”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.