loon (about/off) v.
to act crazily or irresponsibly; as n., a wild time.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Oz 4 25: Just off for a love loon with Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. | |
| Oz 7 26/2: I’m just looning off to Mr Fish to pick up my caftan. Then I’m looning off to pick up my bell from Asprey. | |
![[Can]](/static/img/flags/can.png "Canada") | Buttons 64: There were about thirty Angels looning about in the front room. | |
| Kings Road 96: You stay around and have a good loon [...] the party’s just beginning. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | in Michaels & Ricks ‘The Language of Sisterhood’ in State of the Lang. 233: The hippy penchant for play survives in the way sisters enjoy [...] ‘looning’ together, that is, dancing and clowning around for fun. |
In compounds
trousers with enormous flared bottoms, esp. beloved of early 1970s hippies.
| Times 5 Dec. 15: Dress manufacturers [...] are in despair at the number of young customers in loon pants and T-shirts. | |
![[Ire]](/static/img/flags/ire.png "Ireland") | Breakfast on Pluto 72: A little puddle [...] ticking in small drops on to my stinky, balding velvet loons. | |
| Guardian 23 July 10: A pair of his velveteen ‘loon’ pants had failed to reach it’s reserve price in a Sotheby’s sale of rock memorabilia. | |
| Guardian G2 4 Nov. 5: We wore 21-inch loons. For the uninitiated, loons were trousers and the 21 inches were the circumference of their flare. | |
| Observer Rev. 13 Feb. 8: There’s Keith Arnatt in loons. |