lookout man


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Synonyms for lookout man

a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event

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Thirty-two years ago, while still in our first year of marriage, I took a job as a lookout man with the British Columbia Forest Service (there were no lookout women in those days).
But when Kenneth Bartelson, 35, selected his younger brother, Eugene, 29, to be his "lookout man" for a residential robbery, we think he took the noble thing a little too far.
A rookie FBI lookout man simply didn't notice they'd left.
The raider was captured on CCTV footage crossing himself before acting as a lookout man as a second thief - who was also caught on camera - stole the 116-year-old artefact.
Daniel's father Don, 61, said: "The second mate that was on watch was told by his lookout man that he'd seen these ships and he should move, but he didn't.
DNA tests led police to Jenkins and hisconfession resulted in the arrest of lookout man and getaway driver Michael Gordon, 40, who had panicked and fled the scene without his accomplice.
HITLER'S bunker "lookout man" has died aged 93, it emerged yesterday.
"Lookout man" Wilson, 21, who grabbed the pounds 600 till containing pounds 60 in the struggle, was jailed for five years.
He is the lookout man for a violent gang of armed robbers who may have been behind a string of similar raids across the city in recent weeks.
Lookout man Cameron Cole, 47, didn't lay a finger on Allan Blair, 64.
They escaped through a French window, where they were joined by the lookout man.
The lookout man lived here during the wars against the French and, until 1943, owners were paid pounds 1.12.6d a year to keep an eye out for the enemy.
Granger said he was beaten until signing a statement saying he was the lookout man on the night of the murders, and implicating Steele and Campbell.
The 59-year-old was acting as the lookout man for John McIntosh, 54, and another unidentified man when he saw a police patrol.