Loo

Quick meaning: Loo is a noun meaning (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) A lavatory: a room used for urination and defecation.

Meaning

(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) A lavatory: a room used for urination and defecation.

More Meanings

1. (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) A toilet: a fixture used for urination and defecation.
2. A cry to urge on hunting dogs.
3. (now dialect, used with at, upon or infinitive) To urge on with cries of loo or (figuratively) by other shouting or outcry.
4. The penalty paid to the pool in lanterloo for breaking certain rules or failing to take a trick.
5. An act that prompts such a penalty.
6. A game of lanterloo.
7. Alternative form of lanterloo: the card game.

Example Sentences

Yet, ladies are seldom at ombre or lue sick.

Edg. Pilicock sate on pelicocks hill, a lo lo lo.

Ensure that the tents are well-sited and clean, rubbish bins empty, and that the loos have toilet paper.

And therefore next uncouple either Hound [sc. George Monck and Prince Rupert], And loo them at two Hares ere one be found.

Word Forms

• loos
• looing
• looed

Synonyms for loo

Depending on context, synonyms include bathroom, toilet, closet.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include closet, boo, squirt, shitter, amenity, head.

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