[f. LOO sb.1] trans. To subject to a forfeit at loo (see LOO sb.1 1]. To loo the board (see quot. 1883).
1680. Cotton, Compl. Gamester (ed. 2), xx. 102. If you play and are loo’d (that is, win never a trick). Ibid., 103. He who hath five Cards of a suit in his hand loos all the Gamesters then playing,… and sweeps the board.
c. 1750. Shenstone, To a Friend. I’ll play the cards come next my fingers—Fortune cou’d never let Ned loo her, When she had left it wholly to her.
1797. Sporting Mag., X. 304. The whole sum which happens to be down at the time when he is looed.
1862. H. Kingsley, Ravenshoe, III. 240. General Mainwaring had been looed in miss four times running.
1883. H. Jones, in Encycl. Brit., XV. 1/2. A flush … loos the board, i.e., the holder receives the amount of a loo from every one, and the hand is not played.
1885. Farjeon, Sacred Nugget, xv. [He] suggested that ‘black Jack should loo the board’ … so black Jack looed the board, and the loos became more frequent still. Ibid., xvi. It was proposed that the stakes should be raised to five guineas unlimited…. Each player put in five guineas, making a total of twenty-five guineas, which sum represented the amount a player would be looed for.
1886. D. C. Murray, First Person Singular, xviii. 134. To hold King, Knave, nine, and get looed on it.
b. transf. and fig. (See quots.) Now dial.
1706. Estcourt, Fair Examp., I. i. 10. For let me tell ye, Madam, Scandal is the very Pam in Conversation, and you should always lead it about for the good of the Board; spare no body, every one’s pleas’d to see their Neighbour Loo’d.
a. 1845. Hood, Storm at Hastings, v. No living luck could loo him! Sir Stamford would have lost his Raffles to him!
1859. Bartlett, Dict. Amer., Looed, defeated. A term borrowed from the game called loo.
1879. Miss Jackson, Shropsh. Word-bk., Looed, thwarted, ‘check-mated.’
1888. Sheffield Gloss., s.v., When a cutler agrees to make a number of knives for a fixed sum and has not finished them when pay-time comes he is said to be lood.
