3.123 intransitive compound verbs

One group of compound verbs are typically used in intransitive clauses.

• Many people window-shopped in the glass of the great store.
• If you keep to the rules, you may roller-skate.
• He has learned to lip-read.
• I baby-sat for a friend.

Here is a list of intransitive compound verbs:

• baby-sit, back-pedal, goose-step, hitch-hike, ice-skate, jack-knife, kow-tow, lip-read, play-act, roller-skate, shilly-shally, touch-type, water-ski, window-shop, wolf-whistle