The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 January 2023):
loop
loop through
A sequence of instructions in a program that
the processor repeats. The loop will usually terminate when
some condition is met or it may run indefinitely - an
infinite loop.
Structured languages like C and its descendents provide
loop statements and keywords for some or all of for
loop, while loop and repeat loop. See also
loop-and-a-half.
In other languages these constructs may be synthesised with a
jump (assembly language) or a GOTO (early Fortran or
BASIC).
To "loop through" a list means to process each element in turn.
(2019-09-03)
The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003):
loop through
vt.
To process each element of a list of things. “Hold on, I've got to loop
through my paper mail.” Derives from the computer-language notion of an
iterative loop; compare cdr down (under cdr), which is less common among
C and Unix programmers. ITS hackers used to say IRP over after an obscure
pseudo-op in the MIDAS PDP-10 assembler (the same IRP op can nowadays be
found in Microsoft's assembler).