Sekirov Dictionary

loo

/luː/

noun 9
verb 4
exclamation 1
forms 3

noun9

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(UK, informal) A lavatory: a room used for urination and defecation.
- Ensure that the tents are well-sited and clean, rubbish bins empty, and that the loos have toilet paper. — 2006
(UK, informal) A toilet: a fixture used for urination and defecation.
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(US, slang) A lieutenant.
- I asked my loo to let me escort you in. I wanted a moment to thank you personally.” “There's no need.” “So you said before, but there is. And was. I'll take you in to Lieutenant Ricchio.” — 2012
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(India) A hot dust-bearing wind found in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and the Punjab.
- It was a pitchy black night, as stifling as a June night can be, and the loo, the red-hot wind from the westward, was booming among the tinder-dry trees and pretending that the rain was on its heels. — 1888
A game of lanterloo.
The penalty paid to the pool in lanterloo for breaking certain rules or failing to take a trick.
An act that prompts such a penalty.
(figurative) Any group of people.
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(no longer used) A half-mask, particularly (historical) those velvet half-masks fashionable in the 17th century as a means of protecting women's complexion from the sun.
- Loo Mask. An half Mask. — 1685

verb4

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To beat in the card game lanterloo.
- He was seldom indeed without two good trumps, and therefore almost invariably loo'd those who stood. — 1847
To pay a penalty to the pool for breaking certain rules or failing to take a trick in lanterloo.
(dialect, figurative) To pay any penalty to any community.
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(dialect) To urge on with cries of loo or (figuratively) by other shouting or outcry.
- And therefore next uncouple either Hound [sc. George Monck and Prince Rupert], And loo them at two Hares ere one be found. — 1667

exclamation1

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A cry to urge on hunting dogs.
- Edg. Pilicock sate on pelicocks hill, a lo lo lo. — 1603

forms

looed · looing · loos

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