loosey-goosey

[ loo-see-goo-see ]

adjectiveSlang.
  1. relaxed; calm; unperturbed: Despite the pressure, he was loosey-goosey throughout the game.

Origin of loosey-goosey

1
1965–70; rhyming compound (with -y1) based on the idiom loose as a goose

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