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21on the loose — ► on the loose having escaped from confinement. Main Entry: ↑loose …
22on the loose — free to go, not shut in or stopped by anything The animals at the zoo were on the loose for over three hours when the zookeeper discovered their escape …
23on the loose — free, running around, not in a pen or cage The zoo notified the media that a giraffe is on the loose …
24on the loose — an inmate from Wickham Hall is on the loose Syn: free, at liberty, at large, escaped; on the run, fugitive, wanted; informal on the lam …
25on the loose — free to move about and dangerous. Police warned that a serial killer is on the loose in the northwest …
26on the loose — engaged in prostitution As different from a loose1 female, who may have other employment, or none: When I lived with S. he allowed me £10 a week, but when I went on the loose I did not get so much. (Mayhew, 1862) …
27on the loose — if a dangerous person or animal is on the loose, they have escaped from where they were being kept …
28Loose Tubes — was a big band based in Britain during the mid to late 1980s.OverviewLoose Tubes was a 21 piece UK co operative band that played original music in the 1980s which became the focal point of a renaissance in British Jazz. It spun out of a rehearsal …
29Loose — (l[=oo]s), a. [Compar. {Looser} (l[=oo]s [ e]r); superl. {Loosest}.] [OE. loos, lous, laus, Icel. lauss; akin to OD. loos, D. los, AS. le[ a]s false, deceitful, G. los, loose, Dan. & Sw. l[ o]s, Goth. laus, and E. lose. [root]127. See {Lose}, and …
30Loose pulley — Loose Loose (l[=oo]s), a. [Compar. {Looser} (l[=oo]s [ e]r); superl. {Loosest}.] [OE. loos, lous, laus, Icel. lauss; akin to OD. loos, D. los, AS. le[ a]s false, deceitful, G. los, loose, Dan. & Sw. l[ o]s, Goth. laus, and E. lose. [root]127. See …
