intj
Meaning 1
A cry to urge on hunting dogs.
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Standard Lemma guide
loo
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Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /luː/
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US: /lu/
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homophone: Lou
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homophone: lu
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homophone: lew
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homophone: lieu (yod-dropping)
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rhymes with -uː
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CMU ARPABET: L UW1 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A surname.
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noun
Meaning 3
A lavatory: a room used for urination and defecation.
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Usage: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK
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noun
Meaning 4
A toilet: a fixture used for urination and defecation.
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Usage: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK
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noun
Meaning 5
Alternative form of lanterloo: the card game.
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Usage: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 6
The penalty paid to the pool in lanterloo for breaking certain rules or failing to take a trick.
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Usage: uncountable
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noun
Meaning 7
An act that prompts such a penalty.
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Usage: uncountable
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noun
Meaning 8
A game of lanterloo.
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Usage: uncountable
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noun
Meaning 9
Any group of people.
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Usage: figuratively, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 10
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
Topics: fashion, lifestyle
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noun
Meaning 11
A hot dust-bearing wind found in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and the Punjab.
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Usage: India
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noun
Meaning 12
A lieutenant.
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Usage: US, slang
Topics: government, military, politics, war
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verb
Meaning 13
To urge on with cries of loo or (figuratively) by other shouting or outcry.
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Usage: dialectal
Qualifier: upon or infinitive
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verb
Meaning 14
To beat in the card game lanterloo.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
Meaning 15
To pay a penalty to the pool for breaking certain rules or failing to take a trick in lanterloo.
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verb
Meaning 16
To pay any penalty to any community.
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Usage: dialectal, figuratively
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noun
Meaning 17
a toilet in Britain
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: water closet, closet, W.C.
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Broader terms: toilet, lavatory, lav, can, john, privy, bathroom
History
Etymology
Clipped form of halloo.
* As a Dutch and north German surname, from loo (“wood, clearing”). * As a Chinese surname, spelling variant of Lu.
Uncertain, although usually derived in some way from Waterloo, the site of Wellington's 1815 victory over Napoleon, likely via a pun based on water closet. Other suggested derivations include corruptions of French l'eau (“water”), lieu (“place”), lieux d'aisances (“'places of convenience': a lavatory”), lieu à l'anglaise (“'English place': a British-style lavatory”), bordalou (“a diminutive chamber pot”) or gardez l'eau (“'mind the water'”), via Scots gardyloo, formerly used in Edinburgh while emptying chamber pots out of windows; the supposed use of "Room 100" as the lavatory in Continental hotels; a popularisation of lew, a regional corruption of lee (“downwind”), in reference to shepherds' privies or the former use of beakheads on that side of the ship for urination and defecation; or a clipped form of the name of the unpopular 19th-century Countess of Lichfield Lady Harriett Georgiana Louisa Hamilton Anson, who was the subject of an 1867 prank whereby her bedroom's name-card was placed on the door to the lavatory, prompting the other guests to begin speaking of "going to Lady Louisa".
Clipped form of lanterloo.
From French loup (“wolf; mask, eyemask”). Doublet of lobo, lupus, and wolf.
From Hindi लू (lū), ultmately from Sanskrit उल्का (ulkā, “flame”).
Clipped form of lieutenant.