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Answer for the clue "___-loo, children's game ", 5 letters:
looby

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Word definitions for looby in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Looby \Loo"by\, n.; pl. Loobies . [Cf. Lob .] An awkward, clumsy fellow; a lubber. --Swift.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Looby is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Anne Looby , Australian actress Keith Looby , Australian artist Kurt Looby , Antiguan basketball player

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. an awkward or clumsy person

Usage examples of looby.

Which, Carey wondered, that the looby was a good batter or that he might be home again in Dorset?

Anyone but the veriest looby could see the two were well suited, and they had not even progressed to a first-names basis.

Depend upon it, Sir, a savage, when he is hungry, will not carry about with him a looby of nine years old, who cannot help himself.

When Looby and his small entourage appeared, the voices paused for only a moment.

It was not surprising that Looby and his friends were the best fed, nor that they protected their privileges by beating and starving those who dared to protest and by informing on those who spoke of escape or riot.

Whatever they found they would hand over to Looby and his crew in exchange for food.

Most of the women were, and sex was not part of life in the labor camp, except for Looby and his bullies.

He was, he knew, at the mercy of fate as embodied by Looby and the guards.

How can you think of traveling with only those two clumsy loobies, Fechin and Merwyn?

Slabberdegullion druggels, lubbardly louts, blockish grutnols, doddipol joltheads, lobdotterels, codshead loobies, ninny-hammer flycatchers, and other suchlike defamatory epithets!

Thus while I tell the truth about loobies, my reader's imagination need not be entirely excluded from an occupation with lords.