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Loose, slang antonym for anxious ("uptight"), as in "loosen up" Loose woman, a promiscuous female Loose morals, especially sexual morals, not much concerned with prevailing ethics; Loose steering, vehicle oversteering "Loose lips sink ships", an American English idiom meaning "beware of unguarded talk"
Youth by French painter William-Adolphe Bouguereau.White has traditionally been associated with ritual purity, innocence and virginity in Western cultures. Virginity is the state of a person who has never engaged in sexual intercourse; [1] [2] it is considered a social construct, not an objective term with an operational definition. [3]
Slut (archaic: slattern) is an English-language term for a person, usually a woman, who is sexually promiscuous or considered to have loose sexual morals. [1] [2] It is predominately used as an insult, sexual slur or offensive term of disparagement.
Modesty, sculpture by Louis-Léopold Chambard, 1861 Recreation on a California beach in the first decade of the 20th century. Modesty, sometimes known as demureness, is a mode of dress and deportment which intends to avoid the encouraging of sexual attraction in others.
A social network is defined as either "loose" or "tight" depending on how connected its members are with each other, as measured by factors like density and multiplexity. [1] This measure of tightness is essential to the study of socially motivated language change because the tightness of a social network correlates with lack of innovation in ...
In the United States, cigarettes are required to be sold in quantities of no less than 20. The FDA is concerned that loose cigarettes may be sold more often to children. [1] Loosies are commonly found in low-income areas. [2] The high cost of cigarettes due to increased taxation has been blamed for increased sales of loosies. [3] [4]
Cuckoo sign, touched or screw loose. In North America, making a circling motion of the index finger at the ear or temple signifies that the person "has a screw loose", i.e. is speaking nonsense or is crazy. [8] [13] Cuckold's horns are traditionally placed behind an unwitting man (the cuckold) to insult him and represent that his wife is ...
Children can sometimes lose their citizenship at the same time as their parent doing so, just as they might acquire citizenship at the same time as their parent. Children may also lose their citizenship following adoption by a foreigner or other changes in relation to their parents such as annulment of maternity/paternity.