subs. (colloquial).—A chance of success.
1870. Bell’s Life, 12 Feb. If Fawcett imagines he has got a LOOK-IN, young Mullins will fight him for all the money he can get together in the London district.
1863. Daily Telegraph, 7 Aug., p. 6, col. 2. Four had been examined, and he had expressed his belief that neither of them had a LOOK IN as regarded the prizes.
1884. Referee, 23 March, p. 1, col. 4. Easter fought with great gameness, but he never had a LOOK-IN from the commencement.
1888. Sporting Life, 28 Nov. This athlete is stated to have run through the distance from the 15 yards mark in 10 min. 22/5 sec., which did not give much of a LOOK-IN to the scratch man.
1891. Licensed Victuallers’ Gazette, 20 March. He will have a good LOOK-IN at Epsom if he goes for the City and Suburban. Ibid., 17 April, p. 247, c. 1. It was not until the 15th round that Terry had a LOOK-IN—in a rapid exchange of counters, he got home a terrific blow on Forster’s Roman nose, which smashed the nasal bone.
1892. MILLIKEN, ’Arry Ballads, p. 28. They didn’t get arf a LOOK-IN ’long o’ me.
