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Loose

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Having a tile loose. Not quite of sound mind. The head being the roof of the temple called the body.

Out on the loose. Out on the spree; out of moral bounds.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.