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loon
1[ loon ]
noun
- any of several large, short-tailed, web-footed, fish-eating diving birds of the genus Gavia, of the Northern Hemisphere.
loon
2[ loon ]
noun
- a crazy or simple-minded person.
loon
1/ luːn /
noun
- informal.a simple-minded or stupid person
- dialect.a lad
- archaic.a person of low rank or occupation (esp in the phrase lord and loon )
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Origin of loon1
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Example Sentences
That loon is known as “Dr. Who,” and his nerdy fans are legion.
There was Sen. Claire McCaskill, fresh after dispatching Tea Party loon Todd Akin, on Meet the Press.
That this disheveled loon is played by Paul Rudd—with great conviction—is a bit of a shocker.
Sticking with six brackets is supposedly meant to signal that he believes in a little stability and is not a loon.
As the loon brigades proved as they berated Precious, our humanity is the enemy of ideologues.
He came home late last night; his father heard a noise in his room and went in to find him as crazy as a loon.
"We made you our King because you have less common sense than the rest of us," answered Panta Loon, indignantly.
One or two ran away and presently returned, followed by a lady Loon wearing huge, puffed-up rubber skirts.
The lady Loon picked up the bunch of skin and examined it carefully until she discovered a hole in one foot.
Til Loon was one of those who ran against his thorn and many others suffered the same fate.
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