1864. Saturday Review, July, ‘Stray Votes.’ The game he has in view
is that peculiar variety of Parliamentary species known as an
outsider or a loose fish, but described by itself under the more
flattering title of ‘an independent member.’
Loose-hung, adj. (common).—Unsteady.
Loose-Kirtle, subs. (old).—A wanton: cf. Loose-bodied gown.
Loose-legged, adj. (old).—Incontinent.
1598. Marston, Scourge of Villanie.... ’Twas loose-legged Lais,
that same common drab, For whom good Tubias took the mortal stab.
Loot, subs. (common).—Plunder. See quots. 1798 and 1840.
1788. Stockdale, Ind. Vocab. [Yule], s.v. Loot, plunder, pillage.
1791. Gentlemen’s Mag., p. 78, col. 2. They had orders to burn and
plunder several large villages ... this former part of their
instructions the looties said they had followed.
1798. Wellington, Sup. Desp., i. 60 (1858). Nine parts in ten of
the native armies are looties or bad cavalry.
1840. Fraser, Koordistan, ii. Let. xiv. p. 283. The looties—that
is, the rogues and vagabonds of the place.
1842. C. Campbell, in Life of Lord Clive, i. 120. I believe I have
already told you that I did not take any loot—the Indian word for
plunder.
1875. G. Chesney, Dilemma, xxxvi. It was the Colonel Sahib who
carried off the loot.
1893. Kipling, Barrack-room Ballads, ‘Loot.’ [Title].
Lop, verb. (colloquial).—To lounge; to flop.
1852. H. B. Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, viii. ‘She ... cried about
it, she did, and lopped round, as if she’d lost every friend she
had.’
1881. Besant & Rice, Chap. of the Fleet, 1. x. Some debauched, idle
fellow who lies and lops about all day, doing no work and earning
no money.
1881. Century, xxiii. 652. The señora ... could only lop about in
her saddle.
Lope, verb. (old).—1. See quot.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v. Lope. To leap, to run away. He
loped down the dancers, he ran down stairs.