loose🔊

To let loose, to free from restraints.

To unfasten, to loosen.

To make less tight, to loosen.

Of a grip or hold, to let go.

(archery) To shoot (an arrow).

(obsolete) To set sail.

(obsolete) To solve; to interpret.

Not fixed in place tightly or firmly.

Not held or packaged together.

Not under control.

Not fitting closely.

Not compact.

Relaxed.

Not precise or exact; vague; indeterminate.

Indiscreet.

(somewhat dated) Free from moral restraint; immoral, unchaste.

(sports) Not being in the possession of any competing team during a game.

(dated) Not costive; having lax bowels.

(of volumes of materials) Measured loosely stacked or disorganized (such as of firewood).

(of a stock car) Having oversteer.

(vulgar) Of either a woman's anus or vagina, abnormally wide after multiple penetrations due to having had sexual intercourse multiple times.

(archery) The release of an arrow.

(obsolete) A state of laxity or indulgence; unrestrained freedom, abandonment.

(rugby) All play other than set pieces (scrums and line-outs).

Freedom from restraint.

A letting go; discharge.

(archery) begin shooting; release your arrows

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