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US
/ˈɫupi/
]
[ UK /lˈuːpi/ ]
[ UK /lˈuːpi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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informal or slang terms for mentally irregular
it used to drive my husband balmy - consisting of or covered with or having loops
How To Use loopy In A Sentence
- Red cabbage's fresh, raw crunch is a great addition to salads (see today's recipe), though I quite understand that some of you may have been put off by its appearance in mediocre coleslaws dressed in gloopy, cheap mayonnaise, its pigment seeping into the dressing to create a rather unappealing mess. Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's red cabbage recipes
- Its images tumble, proliferate and cross-hatch; they are extravagant and loopy and defiantly enormous in their ambition, making everything else look petty and piddling.
- Dr Owen might have added, I suppose, that a necessary interest in the private lives of public figures was a feature even of powerful monarchies, where wedding-night consummation was a dynastic issue to be settled with the production of the kind of gloopy evidence now entertaining audiences for forensic science TV shows such as Top stories from Times Online
- It’s a lousy first day on the job for dental assistant Nina Blackman when a patient, loopy from the anesthesia, bites her. “Accidentally Dead” by Dakota Cassidy
- Back in the day, those comfortable with his modern classical accomplishments were baffled by his acetates of loopy leftfield disco.
- They were long, long days, but even though we were all loopy at night, we'd always go out and do something.
- But, given these similarities, it's at least possible that he might have followed Axl Rose's lead, turning into a loopy, mansion-bound recluse, tinkering with unfinished projects, piling on the suet and emerging sporadically to sue his ex-bandmates and have a punch-up with Tommy Hilfiger. Never mind Nevermind, 1991 was all about Guns N' Roses
- An onglet steak was OK, but the chips were limp and dull, and the béarnaise sauce had the over-thickened, gloopy quality of something that had been bought in which, given my legal obligation to assume it was made on site, is a shame. Restaurant review: Bistro du Vin
- It's satisfying to look through this tiny window onto the chain of primal shapes: a loopy dome, an animal figure, a snake.
- She was revolted by bags of pre-prepared potatoes, smothered in gloopy preservative and packed in plastic.