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lasso
1[ las-oh, la-soo ]
noun
- a long rope or line of hide or other material with a running noose at one end, used for roping horses, cattle, etc.
verb (used with object)
- to catch with or as with a lasso.
Lasso
2[ lah-soh ]
noun
- Orlando di [dee], Orlandus Lassus, 1532–94, Flemish composer.
lasso
/ læˈsuː; ˈlæsəʊ /
noun
- a long rope or thong with a running noose at one end, used (esp in America) for roping horses, cattle, etc; lariat
verb
- tr to catch with or as if with a lasso
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Derived Forms
- lasˈsoer, noun
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Other Words From
- lasso·er noun
- un·lassoed adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of lasso1
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Example Sentences
Wonder Woman has a lasso of truth, a pair of indestructible bracelets (badass, yet feminine) and an invisible airplane.
The details on how to lasso an asteroid are still being worked out.
Television to develop a take on the lasso-happy Amazonian warrior.
Next, I noticed Merlin gliding away from me; and then I noticed that my lasso was gone!
At last one of the men mounted his horse, and set out with his lariat to lasso the refractory beast in true cow-boy style.
"I didn't know there was anybody up there," answered Sam, as the noose of the lasso slipped downward.
My only weapons were a lasso made out of green kangaroo hide, fixed to the end of a long pole; and my bow and arrows.
Even the lasso—the weapon of the American aborigines of modern times—was there.
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