loogans

Noun

loogan (plural loogans)

1. (US, dated, slang) A fool.
   • ‘You think he sent that loogan after you?’
     ‘What's a loogan?’
     ‘A guy with a gun.’1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 160
2. (US, derogatory, slang) A Lithuanian.
   • ‘Excuse me,’ I said. ‘Marcelonas? Is that your name, Doyle Marcelonas?'
     ‘Marcelunis,’ he said.
     ‘That's a real Chicago name,’ I said. ‘Right?’
     ‘Marquette Park,’ he said.
     ‘A South Side boy,’ I said.
     ‘South Side loogan,’ he said. ‘Grew up in Marquette Park and I live in Beverly now.’
     I thought I had...2003, Donald Lehmann, “Thirty-two”, in Inc., iUniverse, page 30