Definitions for Loos

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Loos Loos

Spelling: [loos]

IPA: /lus/

Loos is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 20 anagrams from letters in Loos (loos).

Definitions for Loos

noun

1. Adolf [ey-dolf;; German ah-dawlf] /ˈeɪ dɒlf;; German ˈɑ dɔlf/ (Show IPA), 1870–1933, Austrian architect and writer.
2. Anita, 1893–1981, U.S. writer.
3. a card game in which forfeits are paid into a pool.
4. the forfeit or sum paid into the pool.
5. the fact of being looed.
6. toilet.
7. love.

verb (used with object)

1. to subject to a forfeit at loo.

verb (used with or without object)

1. low2 .

Origin of Loos

1665-75; short for lanterloo Dutch lanterlu French lantur(e)lu, special use of meaningless refrain of an old song

Examples for Loos

In the battle of Loos however all the interest was centred on men, men personally.

They were barraging the ground about Loos fiercely and continuously.

At the time of the Loos attack it did really seem that the Big Push had come.

Thus he met his death (riding on horseback, I understand) at Loos.

Some of them had to fight against their nerves on the way to Loos.

On the way to Loos a company of Scots came face to face with a tall German.

I saw him later, during the battle of Loos, after its ghastly failure.

Early in October, 1915, had come the news of the British advance at Loos.

I learnt from him that things were not going so well north of Loos.

A wiring party in the Loos salient—twelve men just out from home.