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[loo-pee] / ˈlu pi /


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I’ve seen it on many products, in many different presentations — pink-glitter bubble letters on a sticker, loopy black cursive on a tote bag, industrial embroidery on a hat.

From Salon Jul. 7, 2026

The series is wildly atmospheric with plenty of gallows humor and more than a few truly loopy plotlines, but great fun with Davis managing, as ever, to sell even the most preposterous scene.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 8, 2026

"On Tuesday morning he was still here and when I let the chickens out he just went loopy," Farmer Tom said.

From BBC Apr. 17, 2026

In his loopy 1957 essay on hipsters, Norman Mailer talked about the “psychic havoc” of living under the threat of nuclear annihilation.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 8, 2026

Written in narrow, loopy writing he had never seen before were the following words: There was no signature.

From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling

Once she stopped trying to outhit them, hitting loopier returns instead of flatter ones, each contest swung her way.

From BBC Jan. 17, 2025

But instead of a dry take on the investigation or a straight monologue like we might have seen in the Alec Baldwin-as-Trump years, we instead get something much loopier.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 2, 2023

Still, stripped of its loopier manifestations, the liberal rediscovery of states as sovereign policymaking entities could be a positive development.

From Washington Post Mar. 15, 2017

One Mississippi places Notaro’s autobiographical character in sharp relief against characters who deal with grief in loopier manners than she ever would.

From Time Sep. 8, 2016

Her letters had loopier tails than her own.

From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck

This may be the loopiest seasonal release this year.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 23, 2017

The result is a generous, achingly tender comedy that offers some of the loopiest, most wondrously inventive humor this side of Jared Hess.

From The New Yorker May 9, 2017

By contrast, the narrative conventions of Trainwreck even at its loopiest seem a little constraining.

From Slate Jul. 26, 2015

A romantic partner knows how to motivate, how to comfort when a grant proposal doesn't go your way and how to rein in the loopiest ideas.

From Nature Jun. 24, 2014

Though the official ceremony would come later, on Friday night the Boggsville Boatel and Boat-In Theater, New York City’s newest and perhaps loopiest tourist outpost, was open for business.

From New York Times Jul. 10, 2011




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