loogan
nounUK /ˈluːɡən/
Etymology Unknown.
- ‘You think he sent that loogan after you?’ ‘What's a loogan?’ ‘A guy with a gun.’1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 160:
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US, Derogatory, Slang A Lithuanian.
- ‘Excuse me,’ I said. ‘Marcelonas? Is that your name, Doyle Marcelonas?' ‘Marcelunis,’ he said. ‘That's a real Chicago name,’ I said. ‘Right?’ ‘Marquette Park,’ he said. ‘A South Side boy,’ I said. ‘South Side loogan,’ he said. ‘Grew up in Marquette Park and I live in Beverly now.’ I thought I had him sidetracked. Loogan meant he was Lithuanian, and I wanted to take the conversation in that direction. Didn't get the chance.2003, Donald Lehmann, “Thirty-two”, in Inc., iUniverse, page 30: