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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

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

Beneath those were strips of yellowing shoe patterns and a tracing of the actor’s foot with a note written in loopy cursive:

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2025

Anderson last adapted Pynchon with the loopy, stoner-inflected “Inherent Vice,” but here he’s working on a grander scale.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2025

There was a name written on the back of the picture, in Mom’s loopy handwriting: Amélie Evelyn.

From "P.S. I Miss You" by Jen Petro-Roy

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

The SNL sketch may have had the more technically accurate impersonations, but Key & Peele had the fresher, loopier ideas.

From Time ● Feb. 12, 2015

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

Yet this book contains some of her loopiest writing as well.

From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 2014




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