loosey-goosey

[loo-see-goo-see]

loos·ey-goos·ey

[loo-see-goo-see]
adjective Slang.
relaxed; calm; unperturbed: Despite the pressure, he was loosey-goosey throughout the game.

Origin:
1965–70; rhyming compound (with -y1) based on the idiom loose as a goose
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