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loon
  1. idler, lout
  2. (chiefly Scotland, Ulster) boy, lad
  3. (chiefly Scotland) harlot; mistress
  4. (chiefly Scotland) simpleton
  5. (slang) crazy or deranged person
  6. (Ireland) English Soldier of an expeditionary army in Ireland.
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  8. Examples:
    1. “Despite his eccentric behavior and unconventional beliefs, many considered him to be a loon.”
      “Some loon at the grocery store decided to put the potato chips at the bottom of the bag.”
      “He reached for Nat again, who by this time had had it and was sick and tired of the crazy loon.”
loon
  1. (US, Canada) Any of various birds, of the order Gaviiformes, of North America and Europe that dive for fish and have a short tail, webbed feet and a yodeling cry.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Despite his eccentric behavior and unconventional beliefs, many considered him to be a loon.”
      “Some loon at the grocery store decided to put the potato chips at the bottom of the bag.”
      “He reached for Nat again, who by this time had had it and was sick and tired of the crazy loon.”
loonie
  1. (Canada, informal) The Canadian dollar (both the coin and the monetary unit).
  2. Examples:
    1. “I supposed it was good that he'd paid because I only had a loonie and a dime in my pocket.”
      “The funhouse atmosphere will also include loonie hotdogs, free popcorn, face-painting, buskers, an organ-grinder, and roving improv performers.”
      “Most likely you would receive a toonie, a loonie, a quarter and a nickel, for a total of four coins.”
looniness
  1. The state or condition of being loony; craziness, lunacy.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Random observations has proof that esteemed academic qualifications can go with severe looniness.”
      “And then the inherent looniness of the regime reasserts itself and we are back to square one.”
      “I generally preferred to have the Japanese soundtrack on for these sequences, where the more serious voice acting better balanced the on-screen looniness.”
looney
loony
  1. An insane or very foolish person.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “I met a loony on the bus yesterday who was talking to invisible beings and wearing mismatched socks.”
loons
  1. plural of loon
  2. Wide flared trousers of a kind worn in the disco era.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Few if any fish survive in acid lakes, so loons have less food for their young.”
      “Over the course of the day, they encounter a family of loons, an eagle, and a pack of timber wolves.”
      “Nearshore waters near the Colville River Delta were particularly important to long-tailed ducks, scoters, and loons.”
loonies
  1. plural of loonie
  2. plural of loony
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  4. Examples:
    1. “We'd need a one-to-one ratio of professional refuters to loonies, just to keep up.”
      “Judging from his clothes, not to mention his rather odiferous smell, he was from the slums, the place where the loonies and takkers hung out.”
      “Together they decided to make great and original-looking guitars for the many professionals and guitar loonies out there.”
looninesses
  1. plural of looniness
looneys
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