English abbreviation dictionary - loo
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(loos) A loo is a toilet. (BRIT INFORMAL) I asked if I could go to the loo. N-COUNT: usu the N in sing ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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I. noun Etymology: short for obsolete English lanter~, from French lanturelu twaddle Date: 1675 1. an old card game in which the winner of each trick or a majority of tricks takes a portion of the pool while losing players are obligated to contribute to the next pool 2. money staked at ~ II. transitive verb Date: 1680 to obligate to contribute to a new pool at ~ for failing to win a trick III. noun Etymology: origin unknown Date: 1940 chiefly British toilet 3 ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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1. n. Brit. colloq. a lavatory. Etymology: 20th c.: orig. uncert. 2. n. 1 a round card-game with penalties paid to the pool. 2 this penalty. Phrases and idioms loo table a kind of circular table. Etymology: abbr. of obs. lanterloo f. F lanturlu, refrain of a song ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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- 1940, probably from Fr. lieux d'aisances, "lavatory," lit. "place of ease," picked up by British servicemen in France during World War I. Or possibly a pun on Waterloo, based on water closet. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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