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loosey-goosey

[ loo-see-goo-see ]

adjective

Slang.
  1. relaxed; calm; unperturbed:

    Despite the pressure, he was loosey-goosey throughout the game.



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51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins

Origin of loosey-goosey1

1965–70; rhyming compound (with -y 1 ) based on the idiom loose as a goose
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Example Sentences

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“It is not random, it is not loosey-goosey, it is not something capricious,†she said.

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The hook is that this showdown is taking place on Valentine’s Day, although the plotting is so loosey-goosey that, for absolutely no reason, people take a nap and the climax doesn’t happen until the evening of Feb. 15.

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Here is another area where even modern financial trading is not this loosey-goosey: If you want to make riskier trades, like with options contracts or crypto, your brokerage will likely make you check more boxes than your betting app will make you check when you fill out a slip for a nine-leg football parlay.

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The code of conduct looks as fake and loosey-goosey as ever.

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Harvey testified that Skaggs asked him for pills in June 2019 because he wanted to feel “loosey-goosey†before a start and said Skaggs told him he once crushed an oxycodone pill and snorted it on a toilet paper dispenser in the Angels’ clubhouse.

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