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loo

/lu/ verb C2
  1. To beat in the card game lanterloo. (transitive)
  2. To pay a penalty to the pool for breaking certain rules or failing to take a trick in lanterloo.

He/she/it loos · Past looed · Past participle looed · -ing form looing

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Verb forms

Base form
loo
He/she/it
loos
Past
looed
Past participle
looed
-ing form
looing

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On entering the drawing-room, she found the whole party at loo, and was immediately invited to join them; but suspecting them to be playing high, she declined it, and making her sister the excuse, said she would amuse herself, for the short time she could stay below, with a book.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 39 · B2
The loo table, however, did not appear.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 50 · B2

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