loo

Speech parts

1. loo - Noun

2. loo - Verb

3. loo - Interjection

4. Loo - Proper noun

Meaning

An old game played with five, or three, cards dealt to each player from a full pack. When five cards are used the highest card is the knave of clubs or (if so agreed upon) the knave of trumps; -- formerly called lanterloo.

A modification of the game of "all fours" in which the players replenish their hands after each round by drawing each a card from the pack.

To beat in the game of loo by winning every trick.

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All my life I've swam in the loo butterfly style. Faina Ranevskaya

Waiting for the sun to shine And you know sometimes it gets so painful Just like talking to yourself When everything don't seem to have no rhyme or reason we all go Do do loo do do, do do loo do do Waiting for the sun to shine. Van Morrison

She'd ended up passing out, and sometime later, John must have gotten up to use the loo and left the light on. Probably to make sure she didn't feel lost if she woke up. Because that's the kind of male he was. J.R. Ward

Abundance and the luxury of everything-right-now has halted and been replaced by a long search for a working public loo and being overjoyed when they turn on the latte machine at WHSmith. Source: Internet

Asheim announced that Seth van Loo, from opening act Severe Torture, and Garbaty "Yaha", from the Polish death metal band Dissenter, would be replacing Glen Benton starting on January 9 in the Netherlands, until Benton could rejoin the tour. Source: Internet

First, it was the son many moons ago, who would throw himself against the loo door as a toddler hollering “mama, mama, where you mama?” Source: Internet

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