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noun luːlu British informal A toilet. Example sentencesExamples - The Newlands Drive public toilets closed last autumn, with the new loos scheduled for completion three weeks ago.
- A few posters saying so, in a few ladies' loos, might be equally useful.
- The excitement in the Ladies loos was barely controllable - apparently there used to be only three cubicles and now there's maybe twelve.
- We need proper loos now, of sufficient quality and quantity, to not only accommodate shoppers and visitors, but also to deal with the rugby hordes.
- A proposal to shut the public loos in Pewsey is not being taken sitting down by villagers.
- Just look at the state of our old folks' homes, our railways and our public loos if you don't believe me.
- The second option was to cut services: scale back dustbin emptying, close more public loos or stop sweeping the streets, for instance.
- The council is exploring opportunities for a new village hall and has successfully fought for new public loos at Bosherston.
- There are far too few accessible public loos in our town centres and the one in the car park is the only reliable convenience with a reasonable standard of cleanliness.
- Public loos in Southend could be turned into a trendy underground wine bar, it was revealed today.
- In the years since, the old problems of litter, graffiti and less-than-sparkling public loos have reared their heads again.
- He feared there was a Government agenda to pension off public loos because councils did not have a duty to provide them, and closure kept council tax bills down.
- Sufferers find it difficult or even impossible to use public loos in the presence of other people.
- The loos have been supplied by Paton Plant, a Hamilton-based company which supplies luxury portable toilets to celebrity events.
- A decision was due to be made on the future of the public loos this month.
- In the popular Revolution bar and club on Belmont Street, a hastily extinguished cigarette was lying on the floor in the ladies' loos.
- Stand on a street corner with a clip board in hand soliciting signatures for the privatization of public loos.
- The horrified landlord of the Victoria Inn at Salcombe saw water gush out of the loos and whoosh through the public bar.
- Later, I had a drink with a Bulgarian colleague, who told me that the country is to abolish charging for public loos.
- We sat for a while in a red room by the loos on a settee, waiting for something to happen (films were starting at 7.30).
Synonyms lavatory, wc, water closet, convenience, public convenience, facilities, urinal, privy, latrine, outhouse, earth closet, jakes
Origin 1940s: many theories have been put forward about the word's origin: one suggests the source is Waterloo, a trade name for iron cisterns in the early part of the century; the evidence remains inconclusive. The upper-class author Nancy Mitford first put loo, meaning ‘lavatory’, into print in her 1940 novel Pigeon Pie. People have put forward different theories about its origin, but none is conclusive. Perhaps the most plausible suggests the source as Waterloo, a trade name for iron cisterns in the early 20th century. A popular but unlikely one, not least because of their relative dates, refers it to gardyloo, a cry used in 18th-century Edinburgh to warn passers-by that someone was about to throw slops out of a window into the street. It is based on pseudo-French gar de l'eau ‘mind the water’ (real French would be gare l'eau). Another French phrase is behind a third suggestion, that British servicemen in France during the First World War picked up lieux d'aisances ‘places of ease’, used for ‘a lavatory’.
Rhymes accrue, adieu, ado, anew, Anjou, aperçu, askew, ballyhoo, bamboo, bedew, bestrew, billet-doux, blew, blue, boo, boohoo, brew, buckaroo, canoe, chew, clew, clou, clue, cock-a-doodle-doo, cockatoo, construe, coo, Corfu, coup, crew, Crewe, cru, cue, déjà vu, derring-do, dew, didgeridoo, do, drew, due, endue, ensue, eschew, feu, few, flew, flu, flue, foreknew, glue, gnu, goo, grew, halloo, hereto, hew, Hindu, hitherto, how-do-you-do, hue, Hugh, hullabaloo, imbrue, imbue, jackaroo, Jew, kangaroo, Karroo, Kathmandu, kazoo, Kiangsu, knew, Kru, K2, kung fu, Lahu, Lanzhou, Lao-tzu, lasso, lieu, Lou, Manchu, mangetout, mew, misconstrue, miscue, moo, moue, mu, nardoo, new, non-U, nu, ooh, outdo, outflew, outgrew, peekaboo, Peru, pew, plew, Poitou, pooh, pooh-pooh, potoroo, pursue, queue, revue, roo, roux, rue, Selous, set-to, shampoo, shih-tzu, shoe, shoo, shrew, Sioux, skean dhu, skew, skidoo, slew, smew, snafu, sou, spew, sprue, stew, strew, subdue, sue, switcheroo, taboo, tattoo, thereto, thew, threw, thro, through, thru, tickety-boo, Timbuktu, tiramisu, to, to-do, too, toodle-oo, true, true-blue, tu-whit tu-whoo, two, vendue, view, vindaloo, virtu, wahoo, wallaroo, Waterloo, well-to-do, whereto, whew, who, withdrew, woo, Wu, yew, you, zoo noun luːlu mass nounA gambling card game, popular from the 17th to the 19th centuries, in which a player who fails to win a trick must pay a sum to a pool.
Origin Late 17th century: abbreviation of obsolete lanterloo from French lanturlu, a meaningless song refrain. nounlo͞olu British informal A bathroom or toilet. Example sentencesExamples - Just look at the state of our old folks' homes, our railways and our public loos if you don't believe me.
- We sat for a while in a red room by the loos on a settee, waiting for something to happen (films were starting at 7.30).
- Sufferers find it difficult or even impossible to use public loos in the presence of other people.
- There are far too few accessible public loos in our town centres and the one in the car park is the only reliable convenience with a reasonable standard of cleanliness.
- The second option was to cut services: scale back dustbin emptying, close more public loos or stop sweeping the streets, for instance.
- A decision was due to be made on the future of the public loos this month.
- The Newlands Drive public toilets closed last autumn, with the new loos scheduled for completion three weeks ago.
- The council is exploring opportunities for a new village hall and has successfully fought for new public loos at Bosherston.
- He feared there was a Government agenda to pension off public loos because councils did not have a duty to provide them, and closure kept council tax bills down.
- A few posters saying so, in a few ladies' loos, might be equally useful.
- We need proper loos now, of sufficient quality and quantity, to not only accommodate shoppers and visitors, but also to deal with the rugby hordes.
- Stand on a street corner with a clip board in hand soliciting signatures for the privatization of public loos.
- The loos have been supplied by Paton Plant, a Hamilton-based company which supplies luxury portable toilets to celebrity events.
- In the popular Revolution bar and club on Belmont Street, a hastily extinguished cigarette was lying on the floor in the ladies' loos.
- In the years since, the old problems of litter, graffiti and less-than-sparkling public loos have reared their heads again.
- A proposal to shut the public loos in Pewsey is not being taken sitting down by villagers.
- The excitement in the Ladies loos was barely controllable - apparently there used to be only three cubicles and now there's maybe twelve.
- The horrified landlord of the Victoria Inn at Salcombe saw water gush out of the loos and whoosh through the public bar.
- Public loos in Southend could be turned into a trendy underground wine bar, it was revealed today.
- Later, I had a drink with a Bulgarian colleague, who told me that the country is to abolish charging for public loos.
Synonyms lavatory, wc, water closet, convenience, public convenience, facilities, urinal, privy, latrine, outhouse, earth closet, jakes
Origin 1940s: many theories have been put forward about the word's origin: one suggests the source is Waterloo, a trade name for iron cisterns in the early part of the century; the evidence remains inconclusive. nounlo͞olu A gambling card game, popular from the 17th to the 19th centuries, in which a player who fails to win a trick must pay a sum to a pool.
Origin Late 17th century: abbreviation of obsolete lanterloo from French lanturlu, a meaningless song refrain. |