lulu

plural lulus

1. slangA remarkable person, object, or idea.

   Mon-sewer, you are a lulu!

   1961, James Edward Grant, Clair Huffaker, The Comancheros, spoken by Jake Cutter (John Wayne)

   4 more examples

   Look out for that first step. It's a lulu.

   1943, Looney Tunes, Jack-wabbit and the Beanstalk, spoken by The Giant

   The funny part was, though, we were the worst skaters on the whole goddam^([sic]) rink. I mean the worst. And there were some lulus, too.

   1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 167

   Seriously, I mean it: From Russia, With Love is a real wowser, a lulu, a dilly and a smasheroo.

   2013, Andrew Lycett, Ian Fleming, page 301

   The job: a real lulu. The heiress to a cheese fortune has run off with a clarinet player in a swing band, and Hicks is dispatched to bring her home.

   2025 October 9, Parul Sehgal, “Thomas Pynchon Saw Where America Was Headed. What Does He See Now?”, in The New York Times Magazine, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC

   Synonyms: exception, ace, innovation, champion, comedy, surprise, doozie, humdinger

2. slangA very attractive or alluring person.

   Synonyms: babe, beauty, cutie, doll, stunner · Antonyms: dog, fright, monster, monstrosity, sight

3. slangA very bad mistake or error.

   Synonyms: aberration, bloomer, blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, break, clanger

plural lulus

1. slangA fixed allowance paid to a legislator in lieu of reimbursement for actual expenses.

plural Lulus · plural Lulues · alternative Loulou

1. A female given name.

   "Do excuse me, and forgive my inquisitiveness. I was struck with the name Lulu." "You think it a baby name," she said, laughing. "O, no; it is wonderfully sweet to me! and may I sometimes call you so?"

   1860, Minnie S. Davis, “The Rival School-Mates”, in The Ladies' Repository, volumes 28-29, A. Tompkins, page 500

   1 more example

   There emerged from the fringe of things, where she perpetually hovered, Mrs. Deacon's older sister, Lulu Bett, who was "making her home with us." And that was precisely the case. They were not making her a home, goodness knows. Lulu was the family beast of burden.

   1920, Zona Gale, Miss Lulu Bett

   1. A diminutive of the female given names Louisa, Louise, Lucy, and Lucille.

plural Lulus · plural Lulues · alternative Lu Lu · alternative Lu-Lu · alternative Lu-lu · alternative Lou Lou · alternative Lou-Lou · alternative Lou-lou · alternative Loulou

1. A female given name from Chinese.

plural Lulus

1. A unisex given name from Arabic.
   1. A female given name from Arabic, equivalent to English Pearl.

plural LULUs

1. Locally unwanted land use.