look in
To visit a place or person briefly and casually.
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Expressions you’ll hear in the US — distinctly American usage first, then widespread staples.
look in on
To check that (someone or something) is okay or that a process is continuing appropriately; to check up on; to monitor (someone) through brief, often surreptitious checks.
look like a bomb has hit it
to be very messy.
look like something the cat dragged in
To have a very dishevelled or untidy appearance.
look like who did it and ran
To appear messy or dishevelled.
look on as
To treat someone in a particular role; to consider someone in a particular way.
look over
To check quickly; to make a brief or cursory visual inspection of.
look past
To see potential beyond obvious flaws; to consider something more than something else.
look upon
To consider or regard something in a specific manner.
look-at-me
Routinely soliciting attention through inappropriate or ostentatious behavior or provocation.
looker
Someone or something who is remarkably good-looking.
lookers-on see most of the game
Those who do not participate in an event observe or experience it more of it than the participants.
looks can be deceiving
A person, place, thing, or situation can be very different from how it seems or appears to be at first glance.
looksmaxx
To enhance one's physical appearance to increase one's sexual market value.
looksmaxxing
An attempt (often pseudoscientific) to maximize physical attractiveness.
looky-loo
A person who comes into a store and looks around but doesn't buy anything.
loom ahead
To be likely to occur and to be disastrous; to be foreboding.
loon
A crazy or deranged person; a lunatic.
loony bin
A lunatic asylum.
loony tune
A silly or crazy person; a person whose actions are unpredictable and irrational.
loony tunes
insane; crazy
loony van
An ambulance used to take a mental patient away to an institution.
loonytarian
A libertarian.
loop in
To include in communications about something; to keep informed about something.
loop off
To leave or depart.
loop up
To form a loop by raising (something that is hanging down or descending).
loophound
Someone who frequents saloons or other nightlife, originally specifically in Chicago's Loop district.
loopy
Idiotic; crazy.
loose as a goose
Very loose (in various senses).
loose off
to fire (a weapon, or ammunition); to shoot (using a firearm)
loose up
Nonstandard form of loosen up.
loosen up
To become loose; to loosen; to relax (a muscle, etc.).
loot
Synonym of money.
loot rail
The light rail system of Baltimore, regarded as a means for inner-city criminals to visit other districts to commit robbery.
loot whore
A person who plays video games or tabletop role-playing games for the primary purpose of acquiring in-game items, sometimes to the detriment of fellow players.
lop
(usually offensive) A disabled person, a cripple.
lop down
To fall down; to sit down.
lop off
To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything, especially to prune a small limb off a shrub or tree, or sometimes to behead someone.
lord of the rings
The Olympic champion on the rings (“still rings”) men's gymnastics apparatus.
lord over
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see lord, over: to act as a lord or boss in relation to (someone or something).
lore
The backstory, especially for a character or setting, created around a fictional universe.
Lorena Bobbitt
Synonym of emasculation (severing of somebody’s penis).
los'
Alternative spelling of lost.
lose one's lunch
To vomit, throw up.
lose out
To be at a disadvantage.
losedows
The Microsoft Windows operating system.
loser back home
A person that cannot succeed in their home country and becomes an expatriate as a result.
loser cruiser
A public motorbus.
loserness
The quality of being a loser.
loserville
A metaphorical town or city inhabited by losers, used to describe a real place, situation or person perceived as unsuccessful, unappealing or lacking social standing.
losing streak
Menstruation
loss
The result of no longer possessing an object, a function, or a characteristic due to external causes or misplacement.
loss and gain are brothers twain
An individual's wealth can easily be lost.
lost in the sauce
Out of it, lost, e.g. due to intoxication, aimlessness, or being bewildered or distracted.
lost weekend
A period of several days in which one indulges in activities such as binge drinking, drug-taking and sex.
lostaway
A fan of the television series Lost.
lostie
Any of the fictional characters in the television drama Lost who become stranded on a mysterious island.
lot lizard
A prostitute at a truck stop.
lot's wife
A salt shaker.
lotion up
To apply lotion or sunscreen to one's skin.