on the loose

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介词短语
  1. Not incarcerated or in captivity; not under control. idiomatic
    — Went to a bongo party completely by mistake / there were coons and thugs and fat sheboons with all the pavement apes / When I got to the bongo party, it smelled of jenkem juice / someone left the cave door open, there were chimps on the loose.
  2. Out on a spree, or in search of adventure. archaic,slang
    — Sometimes he dispensed water to men who “looked as if they had been on the loose all night.”
  3. Earning a living by prostitution. archaic,slang
    — Those who have had good nursing, and all that, and the advantages of a sound education, who have a position to lose, prospects to blight, and relations to dishonour, may be blamed for going on the loose, but I’ll be hanged if I think that priest or moralist is to come down on me with the sledge-hammer of their denunciation.
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