Loose may refer to:

Places

Loose, Germany Loose ( da, Lose) is a municipality in the district of Rendsburg-Eckernförde, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous count ...

Loose, Kent Loose is a village some south of Maidstone, Kent, situated at the head of the Loose Valley, with which it forms the Loose Valley Conservation Area. The fast- flowing River Loose which rises near Langley runs through the centre of the village ...

, a parish and village in southeast England

People

* Loose (surname)

Arts, entertainment, and media

Music

Albums

* ''Loose'' (B'z album), a 1995 album by B'z * ''Loose'' (Crazy Horse album), a 1972 album by Crazy Horse * ''Loose'' (Nelly Furtado album), a 2006 album by Nelly Furtado **

Loose Mini DVD ''Loose'' is the third studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Nelly Furtado, released on June 7, 2006, by Geffen and Mosley Music Group. Following the release of Furtado's second album, ''Folklore'' (2003), through DreamWorks Records, it was ...

, a 2007 DVD by Nelly Furtado ** Get Loose Tour, a concert tour by Nelly Furtado ** Loose: The Concert, a 2007 live DVD by Nelly Furtado * ''Loose'' (Victoria Williams album), a 1994 album by Victoria Williams *'' Loose...'', a 1963 album by jazz saxophonist Willis Jackson

Songs

* "Loose" (S1mba song), a 2020 song by S1mba featuring KSI * "Loose" (Stooges song), a 1970 song by the Stooges * "Loose" (Therapy? song), a 1996 Therapy? single

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

* ''Loose Women '' (film) * '' Loose Women'', a British panel show that has been broadcast on ITV since 6 September 1999 **

List of Loose Women presenters ''Loose Women'' (previously known as ''Live Talk'' from 2000 to 2001) is a British talk show that broadcasts on ITV1 weekdays from 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm. The show focuses on a panel of four female presenters who interview celebrities, talk about ...

Slang

*Loose, slang for

inebriated Alcohol intoxication, also known as alcohol poisoning, commonly described as drunkenness or inebriation, is the negative behavior and physical effects caused by a recent consumption of alcohol. In addition to the toxicity of ethanol, the main ps ...

or high on drugs, as in "get loose" * Loose, slang antonym for anxious ("uptight"), as in "loosen up" * Loose woman, a

promiscuous Promiscuity is the practice of engaging in sexual activity frequently with different partners or being indiscriminate in the choice of sexual partners. The term can carry a moral judgment. A common example of behavior viewed as promiscuous by ma ...

female **Loose morals, especially

sexual morals Sexual ethics (also known as sex ethics or sexual morality) is a branch of philosophy that considers the ethics or morality or otherwise in sexual behavior. Sexual ethics seeks to understand, evaluate and critique interpersonal relationships and ...

, not much concerned with prevailing ethics *Loose steering, vehicle oversteering *"

Loose lips sink ships Loose lips sink ships is an American English idiom meaning "beware of unguarded talk". The phrase originated on propaganda posters during World War II. The phrase was created by the War Advertising Council and used on posters by the United State ...

", an American English idiom meaning "beware of unguarded talk"

Computing and technology

* Loose (framework), a meta object system for Lua, based on Perl's Moose *

Loose coupling In computing and systems design, a loosely coupled system is one # in which components are weakly associated (have breakable relationships) with each other, and thus changes in one component least affect existence or performance of another comp ...

, in computing and systems design **See also,

Loose coupling (disambiguation) Loose coupling is a system of software components that have little or no knowledge of the definitions of other components. Loose coupling may also mean: *Loose coupling, applied to organizational settings by Karl E. Weick Karl Edward Weick (born ...