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A lavatory: a room used for urination and defecation.CommonwealthIrelandUK

• Ensure that the tents are well-sited and clean, rubbish bins empty, and that the loos have toilet paper.

A toilet: a fixture used for urination and defecation.CommonwealthIrelandUK

• The lack of running water in rural areas often makes Western-style loos hygienic disasters. Suddenly the noncontact squat toilet doesn′t look like such a bad option any more (as long as you roll up your trouser legs).
• Waterless urinals are a great way of keeping the guys out of the cubicle toilets, keeping the urine separated from the solid waste (when using composting loos) and reducing water consumption if you have flush loos.

A cry to urge on hunting dogs.

• Edg. Pilicock sate on pelicocks hill, a lo lo lo.

To urge on with cries of loo or (figuratively) by other shouting or outcry.dialectal

• And therefore next uncouple either Hound [sc. George Monck and Prince Rupert], And loo them at two Hares ere one be found.

Alternative form of lanterloo: the card game.alt-ofalternativeuncountable

• Yet, ladies are seldom at ombre or lue sick.

The penalty paid to the pool in lanterloo for breaking certain rules or failing to take a trick.uncountable

An act that prompts such a penalty.uncountable

A game of lanterloo.uncountable

Any group of people.figurativelyuncountable

To beat in the card game lanterloo.transitive

• He was seldom indeed without two good trumps, and therefore almost invariably loo'd those who stood.

To pay a penalty to the pool for breaking certain rules or failing to take a trick in lanterloo.

To pay any penalty to any community.dialectalfiguratively

A half-mask, particularly (historical) those velvet half-masks fashionable in the 17th century as a means of protecting women's complexion from the sun.obsolete

• Loo Mask. An half Mask.

A hot dust-bearing wind found in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and the Punjab.India

• It was a pitchy black night, as stifling as a June night can be, and the loo, the red-hot wind from the westward, was booming among the tinder-dry trees and pretending that the rain was on its heels.

A lieutenant.USslang

• I asked my loo to let me escort you in. I wanted a moment to thank you personally.” “There's no need.” “So you said before, but there is. And was. I'll take you in to Lieutenant Ricchio.”