Loo
noun
A toilet.
I need to go to the loo.
Often appears as...
- go to the loo
- use the loo
Usage tips
Informal
Colloquial
noun
A card game popular in the 17th and 18th centuries.
They sat down to a game of Loo.
Often appears as...
- play loo
- game of loo
Usage tips
Historical
verb
To expose someone to wind or rain.
We looed the sails to dry them.
Often appears as...
- loo the sails
- loo the mast
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A toilet.
I need to go to the loo.
Often appears as...
- go to the loo
- use the loo
Usage tips
Informal
Colloquial
noun
A card game popular in the 17th and 18th centuries.
They sat down to a game of Loo.
Often appears as...
- play loo
- game of loo
Usage tips
Historical
verb
To expose someone to wind or rain.
We looed the sails to dry them.
Often appears as...
- loo the sails
- loo the mast
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3British Slang
Remember 'loo' is British slang for toilet, less common in other English-speaking countries.
When I visited London, I asked where the loo was.
Pro Tip 2/3Informal Use
'Loo' is informal and usually used among friends or in casual settings.
I'm just popping to the loo, back in a minute.
Pro Tip 3/3Conversation Break
Saying you need the loo is a socially acceptable way to excuse yourself.
Excuse me, where’s the loo? I need a quick break.
Pro Tip 1/3British Slang
Remember 'loo' is British slang for toilet, less common in other English-speaking countries.
When I visited London, I asked where the loo was.
Pro Tip 2/3Informal Use
'Loo' is informal and usually used among friends or in casual settings.
I'm just popping to the loo, back in a minute.
Pro Tip 3/3Conversation Break
Saying you need the loo is a socially acceptable way to excuse yourself.
Excuse me, where’s the loo? I need a quick break.
Pro Tip 1/3British Slang
Remember 'loo' is British slang for toilet, less common in other English-speaking countries.
When I visited London, I asked where the loo was.
Pro Tip 2/3Informal Use
'Loo' is informal and usually used among friends or in casual settings.
I'm just popping to the loo, back in a minute.
Pro Tip 3/3Conversation Break
Saying you need the loo is a socially acceptable way to excuse yourself.
Excuse me, where’s the loo? I need a quick break.
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Video examples
Asher Jay: Art as a...
I always sleep with an iPhone by my bed, or a notebook because I never know when a sketch is going to occur to me. Not to mention bathroom breaks. If I wake up in the middle of the night, and this was one particular situation, is a sequence that actually unfolded one evening. I woke up at three in the morning, I went to the loo, sat down, and as I'm peeing I'm looking out the door,
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Arthur Potts Dawson: A...
This takes the water out of the restaurant, runs it through these stone beds -- this is going to be mint in there -- and I sort of water the garden with it. And I ultimately want to recycle that, put it back into the loos, maybe wash hands with it, I don't know. So, water is a very important aspect.
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What separates us from...
Every individual has a role to play. Every one of us impacts the world around us everyday, and you scientists know that you can't actually -- even if you stay in bed all day, you're breathing oxygen and giving out CO2, and probably going to the loo, and things like that --
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Ben Saunders: Three...
one change of underwear -- everything I needed for nearly three months. What we're going to try and do today, in the 16 and a bit minutes I've got left, is to try and answer three questions. The first one is, why? The second one is, how do you go to the loo at minus 40?
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Safari Live - Day 32 PIPE...
gonna be able to do that hello beautiful way look at how wonderful his eyes are getting they almost going more orange by the day they sort of lightining up but going orange orange orange an interesting Estonian tea at an almost loo mullah eye color and those of you
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Safari Live - Day 174 PIPE...
and loo from from the control tower is because the tentorium of the layers on onions and our groceries and even look at them carefully from the straps they got yes they're just like you know the layers especially when you peel the
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Palenque and the Ancient...
later in his life as opposed to that early portrait we just saw and the temple of the inscriptions where ruse was excavating is really pakal's temple that is why it's near the palace and that's why it's really loo mning over
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Melinda French Gates:...
I'm not kidding. Women are refusing to marry men without toilets. No loo, no "I do." Now, it's not just a funny headline -- it's innovative. It's an innovative marketing campaign. But more importantly,
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What nonprofits can...
marry men without toilets no loo no I do now it's not just a funny headline its innovative it's an innovative marketing campaign but more importantly it saves lives take a look at this this is a room
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Safari Live - Day 182 PIPE...
kering sound that they're doing they often sitting in the bush looking at the lipid yeah food sins are there but it sounds nothing like that loo perhaps yeah that was the lesser and sins I call
Video examples
Asher Jay: Art as a...
I always sleep with an iPhone by my bed, or a notebook because I never know when a sketch is going to occur to me. Not to mention bathroom breaks. If I wake up in the middle of the night, and this was one particular situation, is a sequence that actually unfolded one evening. I woke up at three in the morning, I went to the loo, sat down, and as I'm peeing I'm looking out the door,
Video examples
Arthur Potts Dawson: A...
This takes the water out of the restaurant, runs it through these stone beds -- this is going to be mint in there -- and I sort of water the garden with it. And I ultimately want to recycle that, put it back into the loos, maybe wash hands with it, I don't know. So, water is a very important aspect.
Video examples
What separates us from...
Every individual has a role to play. Every one of us impacts the world around us everyday, and you scientists know that you can't actually -- even if you stay in bed all day, you're breathing oxygen and giving out CO2, and probably going to the loo, and things like that --
Video examples
Ben Saunders: Three...
one change of underwear -- everything I needed for nearly three months. What we're going to try and do today, in the 16 and a bit minutes I've got left, is to try and answer three questions. The first one is, why? The second one is, how do you go to the loo at minus 40?
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 32 PIPE...
gonna be able to do that hello beautiful way look at how wonderful his eyes are getting they almost going more orange by the day they sort of lightining up but going orange orange orange an interesting Estonian tea at an almost loo mullah eye color and those of you
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 174 PIPE...
and loo from from the control tower is because the tentorium of the layers on onions and our groceries and even look at them carefully from the straps they got yes they're just like you know the layers especially when you peel the
Video examples
Palenque and the Ancient...
later in his life as opposed to that early portrait we just saw and the temple of the inscriptions where ruse was excavating is really pakal's temple that is why it's near the palace and that's why it's really loo mning over
Video examples
Melinda French Gates:...
I'm not kidding. Women are refusing to marry men without toilets. No loo, no "I do." Now, it's not just a funny headline -- it's innovative. It's an innovative marketing campaign. But more importantly,
Video examples
What nonprofits can...
marry men without toilets no loo no I do now it's not just a funny headline its innovative it's an innovative marketing campaign but more importantly it saves lives take a look at this this is a room
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 182 PIPE...
kering sound that they're doing they often sitting in the bush looking at the lipid yeah food sins are there but it sounds nothing like that loo perhaps yeah that was the lesser and sins I call
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
Simon Hoggart
British Journalist
When I was collecting material for a political gossip column, and someone said something interesting, I would wait for them to add, 'and I don't want to read that in your magazine!' In which case I wouldn't use it. But if they didn't remember to say it, I'd nip off to the loo, write the story up, come back and change the subject.
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Jerry Hall
American Model
People feel like they know you because they've read about you, and people who don't know me seem to have warm feelings about me. I seem to be popular with women. I go into the loo in restaurants, and they all say, 'Oh, I love you.' It's odd, but it's really nice, too.
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Samuel West
British Actor
I'm not very good at relaxing. Reading's the main thing. On the bus, on the tube, on the loo. Literally all the time. I mean, I don't think there's a moment of the day when I wouldn't be if I was left alone.
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Zoe Buckman
Australian Athlete
People will email me and text me if they've found an amazing loo. I'm like, 'How was the food?' They'll say, 'Fine, but you have to check out the loo.
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Francois Nars
French Businessman
There was a time when you would dream about, say, movie stars. Now, you virtually follow them into their bathroom when they're going to the loo.
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Aisling Bea
Irish Actress
Please note when you watch a play, you can't pause it and go to the loo or shout into the kitchen for a tea. Learned that the hard way.
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Katie Hopkins
English Entertainer
As much as I love a smart kid who can spell nicely, I love a giggling kid wrapped in loo roll pretending to be a mummy even more.
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Lolly Adefope
In a nightclub, the women's loos are not just the women's loos; they're where temporary female friendships are forged.
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Lewis Capaldi
Scottish Musician
The fact you have to pay 50p to use the loo in some places is the root of the world's issues.
Quote examples
Mary Beard
My fantasy is going into a men's loo. And listening to what they say.
Quote examples
Simon Hoggart
British Journalist
When I was collecting material for a political gossip column, and someone said something interesting, I would wait for them to add, 'and I don't want to read that in your magazine!' In which case I wouldn't use it. But if they didn't remember to say it, I'd nip off to the loo, write the story up, come back and change the subject.
Quote examples
Jerry Hall
American Model
People feel like they know you because they've read about you, and people who don't know me seem to have warm feelings about me. I seem to be popular with women. I go into the loo in restaurants, and they all say, 'Oh, I love you.' It's odd, but it's really nice, too.
Quote examples
Samuel West
British Actor
I'm not very good at relaxing. Reading's the main thing. On the bus, on the tube, on the loo. Literally all the time. I mean, I don't think there's a moment of the day when I wouldn't be if I was left alone.
Quote examples
Zoe Buckman
Australian Athlete
People will email me and text me if they've found an amazing loo. I'm like, 'How was the food?' They'll say, 'Fine, but you have to check out the loo.
Quote examples
Francois Nars
French Businessman
There was a time when you would dream about, say, movie stars. Now, you virtually follow them into their bathroom when they're going to the loo.
Quote examples
Aisling Bea
Irish Actress
Please note when you watch a play, you can't pause it and go to the loo or shout into the kitchen for a tea. Learned that the hard way.
Quote examples
Katie Hopkins
English Entertainer
As much as I love a smart kid who can spell nicely, I love a giggling kid wrapped in loo roll pretending to be a mummy even more.
Quote examples
Lolly Adefope
In a nightclub, the women's loos are not just the women's loos; they're where temporary female friendships are forged.
Quote examples
Lewis Capaldi
Scottish Musician
The fact you have to pay 50p to use the loo in some places is the root of the world's issues.
Quote examples
Mary Beard
My fantasy is going into a men's loo. And listening to what they say.
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