look for somebody/something phrasal verb ( see also ↑ look )
1 . to try to find something that you have lost, or someone who is not where they should be SYN search for :
I’m looking for Steve – have you seen him?
Detectives are still looking for the escaped prisoner.
⇨ ↑ search 2 (1)
2 . be looking for somebody/something to be trying to find a particular kind of thing or person:
I’m sorry, we’re really looking for someone with no family commitments.
be (just) what/who you are looking for
‘Salubrious’! That’s just the word I was looking for.
3 . be looking for trouble informal to be behaving in a way that makes it likely that problems or violence will happen:
They walked into a bar looking for trouble.