He washed his face in the loo!

[Helen_Combe]

My character has just done the following -
’I washed my face in the loo’.
In the UK, that means he washed his face in the toilet.
Is there a different meaning in the US?

[emmirex2018]

He washed his face in a dirty water

[TaaraLynn]

I'm from the US, but for me, I take it to mean the actual toilet or the bathroom. Depending on the sentence. Reading that, I would take it as he washed his face in the bathroom (sink).

[Helen_Combe]

I'm from the US, but for me, I take it to mean the actual toilet or the bathroom. Depending on the sentence. Reading that, I would take it as he washed his face in the bathroom (sink).

Thank you. I know now that it’s not an error.

[Mallory Porshnev]

Either this is meant to be comical or he is just in the bathroom, "the loo" washing in the sink, the toilet, who knows.

[Daviesmurf]

"the loo" i think is comical meaning he washed his face in the bathroom

[Yssimnar]

Is there a different meaning in the US?

It seems to me that we Americans use the "loo" improperly because we use it as a British expression to mean the bathroom. I think we are just wrong in our usage and have misappropriated the word. Maybe it's okay if the book uses it as a slang term.