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loose around here lately. 7 wanton, dissolute, debauched,
immoral, promiscuous, abandoned, fast, libertine, profligate,
licentious, lewd, perverted, corrupt: She was quickly gaining a
reputation for being a loose woman.
--adv. 8 break loose. escape, flee: The boy broke loose from
my grasp and ran to greet his mother. 9 hang or stay loose.
relax, stay or keep calm or cool, cool off or down, sit back,
take it easy: Hang loose and everything will be all right. 10
let or set or turn loose. discharge, let go (with); emit, give
out (with), fire: They let him loose after questioning. She let
loose a stream of invective like a fishwife.
--v. 11 let go, (set) free, release, let or set or turn loose;
liberate, deliver: Ten thousand balloons were loosed in the
celebration. 12 untie, undo, unfasten, let go, disengage,
relax, ease, loosen, slacken;, cast off: Loose these ropes,
please. 13 let go, let fly, fire, discharge, shoot, unleash,
deliver: We loosed a devastating barrage at the enemy.
loosen v. 1 loose; undo, unfasten, unhook, unbutton, unlace, untie,
unbind, unbuckle; unscrew: Quick! Loosen his collar! 2 weaken,
detach, separate, sever, break or cut (apart): The vibration
has loosened the rivets.
loot n. 1 booty, spoils, plunder, prize, haul, Slang swag, boodle:
They divided up the loot amongst the gang.
--v. 2 plunder, sack, ransack, rob, pillage, despoil, raid,
ravage, maraud, Rare depredate: The soldiers looted every house
in the city.
lop v. Often, lop off. chop off, trim, top, head, crop, prune,
dock, clip, trim, snip off, shear off, cut off, pare, shorten,
hack off, amputate: Lop the lower branches off close to the
trunk.
lopsided adj. 1 uneven, askew, one-sided, awry, unsymmetrical,
asymmetrical, unequal, crooked, unbalanced, irregular, Colloq
cock-eyed: That lopsided bookcase is the sole product of Ed's
cabinet-making class. 2 uneven, unequal, one-sided, biased,
disproportionate, unfair, warped, twisted: Four against two -
I'd call that lopsided, wouldn't you?