loo

• Incidentally, in case you folks out there were just warming up your ballpoints to write and ask where the term loo came from, I have some bad news: no one knows for sure. —  The Word Detective
• I was in the loo, and when I came back, the battle lines were drawn. —  Muller, Marcia - [22] A Walk through the fire.htm
• Tiny Doom is doing the Ronde-loo, weaving round and round Sieur Oso, her circular motion too sickmaking for Hardhands to follow Then he realizes: no, they are not dancing, Sieur Oso is trying to squash Tiny Doom like a bug, and she, rather than run like a sensible child, is actually taunting him on. —  FSF, July 2006
• They betted away the week at billiards or whist or picquet or loo, and sometimes measured swords for diversion, tho' this pastime the bailiff was greatly set against, as calculated to deprive him of a lodger Although we had no money for gaming, and little for wine or tobacco, the captain and I were received very heartily into the fraternity. —  Richard Carvel
• A few of the elders had a game of loo, and Mr. Adams played chess with Morris Winslow, whose pretty wife still enjoyed dancing, though he was growing stout and begged to be excused on a warm night They played forfeits afterward and had a merry time. —  A Little Girl in Old Boston

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