Lou
noun
a male given name, form of Louis.
lou
British
/ luː /
verb
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I own six Lou Reed albums, including Berlin on vinyl.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
For 30-year-old DJ and promoter Khiah Lou, representation, she says, is central to her work.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
"Chinese AI models are leading the way in the open-source innovation ecosystem," National People's Congress spokesman Lou Qinjian told policymakers in April.
From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026
Lou is genuinely sorry but the movie asks if he could possibly ever be sorry enough.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Mary Lou was standing in front of Fat Pete, who had come in for more stitches that morning.
From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville
Sophisticated savers are turning instead to Treasury bills that pay nearly 7%; commercial paper, a form of corporate lou, that yields 7.5%; and commercial-bank certificates of deposit, that pay almost 8%.
From Time Magazine Archive
Skip to My Lou, ii: A rhythmical, rimeless chant made up of the dance "calls," beginning: Steal your partner, skip to my lou, Skip to my lou, my darling.
From A Syllabus of Kentucky Folk-Songs by Josiah Henry Combs
It is called lou pichot gris, the grayling, in these parts, because of its coloring, which is usually an ashen gray.
From The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
That is why, struck by this shape, the Provençal peasant, in his expressive language, calls the Penduline lou Debassaire, the Stocking-knitter.
From The Life of the Spider by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
Sis arpioun en rastèu Te gatihoun lou bout de l'alo.
From Social Life in the Insect World by Bernard Miall
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