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Noun. See 'have a screw loose'.
Loose cannon is American slang for a dangerously uncontrolled person.
Louse is slang for to ruin or spoil.
Loose screw is British slang for a mad person.
Hang loose is American slang for stay relaxed.
To have a screw loose is slang for to be a little insane or mad.
Loose jaw is British slang for a gossip.
To give someone up. [I loved him but I had to cut loose of him.].
Loose change is medical slang for a nearly severed limb that will require amputation.
Loose is slang for relaxed, nonchalant.Loose is British slang for sexually promiscuous.
Something wrong. "He's got a screw loose."
Get loose is slang for to relax.Get loose is slang for to throw some punches.Get loose is slang for to dance, to have fun.
Goose is slang for feeling, poking or pinching a persons bottom. Goose is slang for to condemn by hissing.Goose (shortened from goose and duck) is London Cockney rhyming slang for sexual intercourse.
Slightly deranged. Also "slate loose."
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n.
Any one of numerous species of small, wingless, suctorial, parasitic insects belonging to a tribe (Pediculina), now usually regarded as degraded Hemiptera. To this group belong of the lice of man and other mammals; as, the head louse of man (Pediculus capitis), the body louse (P. vestimenti), and the crab louse (Phthirius pubis), and many others. See Crab louse, Dog louse, Cattle louse, etc., under Crab, Dog, etc.
v. i.
To become loose; to become less tight, firm, or compact.
superl.
Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book.
n.
Any large bird of other related families, resembling the common goose.
superl.
Dissolute; unchaste; as, a loose man or woman.
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Not tight or close; as, a loose garment.
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Not dense, close, compact, or crowded; as, a cloth of loose texture.
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Containing or consisting of obscene or unchaste language; as, a loose epistle.
v. t.
To tie in a noose; to catch in a noose; to entrap; to insnare.
v. t.
To cease to have; to possess no longer; to suffer diminution of; as, to lose one's relish for anything; to lose one's health.
superl.
Not precise or exact; vague; indeterminate; as, a loose style, or way of reasoning.
v. t.
To make loose; to loosen; to set free.
n.
A stubble goose.
n.
The loon. See Ember-goose.
a.
To relax; to loosen; to make less strict.
v. t.
Not to employ; to employ ineffectually; to throw away; to waste; to squander; as, to lose a day; to lose the benefits of instruction.
v. t.
To make loose; to free from tightness, tension, firmness, or fixedness; to make less dense or compact; as, to loosen a string, or a knot; to loosen a rock in the earth.
n.
A tailor's smoothing iron, so called from its handle, which resembles the neck of a goose.
n.
See Wayz-goose, n., 2.
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