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loo

noun
🔊/luː/
🔊/luː/
(plural loos)
(British English, informal)
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  1. a toilet厕所；盥洗室；洗手间
    • She's gone to the loo.她去盥洗室了。🔊🔊
    • Can I use your loo, please?我可以用一下你的厕所吗？🔊🔊
    Extra Examples
    • He flushed the letter down the loo.他把那封信冲下了厕所。
    • We got stuck in a traffic jam and I was desperate for the loo.我们碰上交通堵塞走不动，我又急着上厕所。
    Topics Houses and homesc1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • public
    • outside
    • gents’
    • …
    verb + loo
    • go to
    • use
    • be desperate for
    • …
    loo + noun
    • paper
    • roll
    preposition
    • in the loo
    • on the loo
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    Word Origin1940s: many theories have been put forward about the word's origin: one suggests the source is Waterloo, a trade name for iron cisterns in the early part of the century; the evidence remains inconclusive.