to cut loose

Examples

• All

• After a long week at work, I love to cut loose with my friends at the party.

• A Latin band cuts loose as beautiful people mill about against a beautiful Chicago skyline.

  Fiction book (1991)

• All the better to cut loose and say whatever she wanted.

  Academic text (2010)

• Never hurts to cut loose now and then.

  Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama 2 (2022)

• Don't you ever just want to cut loose and go wild?

  Fiction book (1993)

• How empowered and free are they to cut loose and make the contributions they want to make?

  Blog text (2)

• It's Spring Break, y'all, time to cut loose, on Panama City Beach.

  Ruby in Paradise (1993)

• Six months and a handful of paperwork later, I found myself cut loose, afloat in a sea of inertia.

  Fiction book (2001)

• Every once in a while, though, he would cut loose, usually with Israeli folk music ornamented with wild, playful wailings.

  Fiction book (1997)

• It's important to cut loose sometimes and not worry about responsibilities.

Synonyms

R

to release

vsto cut loose

∞ 1.8

To let someone or something go free from being held

adds a social sense of abandoning restraint for fun or relief

L

to let go

vsto cut loose

∞ 1.4

To stop holding something or someone so they are free

applies that stopping plus freeing from duties and encouraging carefree behaviour

L

to let out

vsto cut loose

344 1.1

Allow someone or something to leave a place

stresses both departure and a relaxed, unrestrained manner of action

F

to free

vsto cut loose

337 1.0

To release someone or something that is held

focuses more on relieving duty and encouraging carefree behaviour

S

to set free

vsto cut loose

218 2.7

To let a person or animal go after keeping them in a place where they could not leave

includes that liberty plus an informal dropping of obligations for enjoyment

L

to loose

vsto cut loose

30 3.0

To let something go free or make it less tight

also implies shedding duties and enjoying greater personal freedom

L

to let loose

vsto cut loose

• Informal

12 3.9

Relax and enjoy yourself without worrying

adds letting go of responsibilities and a sense of carefree enjoyment

B

to break free from

vsto cut loose

11 4.1

To escape limits or control and become independent

emphasises being allowed freedom and enjoying lack of responsibility rather than fleeing

B

to break loose

vsto cut loose

8 3.9

To force yourself free from a place or person

involves voluntary release and often joyful, uninhibited conduct rather than force

U

to untether

vsto cut loose

1 6.2

To free someone or something from limits so they can act more freely

allows release while also encouraging playful, uninhibited behaviour

C

to cast loose

vsto cut loose

1 6.7

To free something by letting go of ties or limits

extends detachment to letting go of responsibilities and restraint for fun

Antonyms

C

to confine

215 4.2

Keep someone or something within limits, for example in a small space

R

to restrain

86 4.6

Hold a person or thing so it cannot move freely

How Free

to liberate

104 4.3

to release

∞ 1.8

to cut loose

• Informal

18 4.4

to let go

∞ 1.4

to loosen

88 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology