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looie

looie noun: lieutenant.

Noun

looie (plural looies)

  1. (informal) Lieutenant.
    • "Dress up that line there," one sergeant with three gold stripes shouted to his company of majors, second "looies," and privates.1920, Journal of the Fifty-Third National Encampment Grand Army of the Republic, Government Printing Office, page 90
    • […] any more than a second lieutenant in Fort Dix will have a direct involvement with the doings of Congress. Even the "employers" of the ISTs, the security council, should remain as distant from the characters as the Joint Chiefs of Staff are from that second looie.1991, Robert W. Schroeck, GURPS Supers: I.S.T., Steve Jackson Games, →ISBN, page 5

Forms of looie

plurallooies

Origin of looie

Shortened lieutenant + -ie.

Questions about looie

What does looie mean?
Looie means lieutenant.
What part of speech is looie?
Looie is a noun.
What is the plural of looie?
The plural of looie is looies.

Words near looie in the dictionary

  1. loogaroos
  2. loogie
  3. loogies
  4. loogy
  5. LOOGYs
  6. looie
  7. looies
  8. looing
  9. look
  10. look a fright
  11. look a like

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