Usually means: Not tightly fixed or constrained.
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We found 48 dictionaries that define the word loose:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. loose: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. loose: Merriam-Webster
  3. loose, loose: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. loose: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. loose, the loose: Collins English Dictionary
  6. loose: Vocabulary.com
  7. Loose, loose: Wordnik
  8. loose: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Loose, loose: Wiktionary
  10. loose: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. loose: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. loose: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. loose: Dictionary.com
  14. loose (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. loose: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Loose (B'z album), Loose (Crazy Horse album), Loose (Nelly Furtado album), Loose (The Stooges song), Loose (Therapy? song), Loose (Victoria Williams album), Loose (album), Loose (disambiguation), Loose: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Loose: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. loose: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. loose: Rhymezone
  20. loose: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. loose: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Loose: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. loose: FreeDictionary.org
  24. loose: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. loose: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. loose: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Loose (disambiguation), loose: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Loose (disambiguation), loose: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. loose: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. loose: Sound Alike Words
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Loose (disambiguation), loose: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. LOOSE: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. loose: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. loose, loose: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Sports (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Loose: Dan's Poker
  2. Internet Karting Glossary (No longer online)
  3. winyourwager.com Gambling Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  5. Texas Hold'em Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Loose: Sports Definitions

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. loose: Canadian Soil Information System

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To let loose, to free from restraints.
verb:  (transitive) To unfasten, to loosen.
verb:  (transitive) To make less tight, to loosen.
verb:  (intransitive) Of a grip or hold, to let go.
verb:  (archery) To shoot (an arrow).
verb:  (obsolete) To set sail.
verb:  (obsolete) To solve; to interpret.
adjective:  Not fixed in place tightly or firmly.
adjective:  Not held or packaged together.
adjective:  Not under control.
adjective:  Not fitting closely.
adjective:  Not compact.
adjective:  Relaxed.
adjective:  Not precise or exact; vague; indeterminate.
adjective:  Indiscreet.
adjective:  (somewhat dated) Free from moral restraint; immoral, unchaste.
adjective:  (not comparable, sports) Not being in the possession of any competing team during a game.
adjective:  (dated) Not costive; having lax bowels.
adjective:  (of volumes of materials) Measured loosely stacked or disorganized (such as of firewood).
adjective:  (US, slang, motor racing, of a stock car) Having oversteer.
adjective:  (slang, vulgar) Of either a woman's anus or vagina, abnormally wide after multiple penetrations due to having had sexual intercourse multiple times.
noun:  (archery) The release of an arrow.
noun:  (obsolete) A state of laxity or indulgence; unrestrained freedom, abandonment.
noun:  (rugby) All play other than set pieces (scrums and line-outs).
noun:  Freedom from restraint.
noun:  A letting go; discharge.
noun:  A surname.
verb:  Obsolete form of lose. [(transitive) To cause (something) to cease to be in one's possession or capability.]
verb:  Misspelling of lose. [(transitive) To cause (something) to cease to be in one's possession or capability.]

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