[ UK /lˈə‍ʊf/ ]
[ US /ˈɫoʊf/ ]
VERB
  1. be about
    The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square
    Who is this man that is hanging around the department?
  2. be lazy or idle
    Her son is just bumming around all day
NOUN
  1. a quantity of food (other than bread) formed in a particular shape
    sugar loaf
    meat loaf
    a loaf of cheese
  2. a shaped mass of baked bread that is usually sliced before eating
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How To Use loaf In A Sentence

  • A perfect mob of street urchins, loafers, shop-men and bar-keepers who could spare a bit of time, lined up in front of the Palace Hotel and watched the plaid-coated, gray-capped visitors in short knickerbockers and golf stockings puff their pipes around the bar and call for "Porter and h'ale, 'alf and The Transformation of Job A Tale of the High Sierras
  • So, he got out his bread knife and trimmed the quarter-loaf down to a couple of slices of dry toast.
  • You can think that you ate a whole loaf and the entire thing is still there.
  • If you don't know what a carcake is which you probably don't, because as far as I know I invented the term, it's a great big loaf of snow that sits atop a motor vehicle after a snowstorm which the driver was either unable or unwilling to clear. The Indignity of Commuting by Bicycle: Cakes and Cheese
  • Edusha brewed some tea and found half a loaf of bread, some butter and cheese.
  • You can't really go wrong with a loaf of wholemeal organic bread, but as much as I love the UK I find it difficult to get remarkable fresh bread.
  • Whatever may be said henceforward of these "golden lads" of ours, "shirker" and "loafer" they can never he called again. The War on All Fronts: England's Effort Letters to an American Friend
  • I was standing by the paddock surveying the latest in a line of equine flatterers and good-for-nothing loafers in which I was about to invest.
  • (I found this remarkable in a medical man: between trouser hem and refulgent loafer, a gleam of bronzed ankle.) Retching With the Stars
  • 'LBJ made it very clear a half a loaf is better than no loaf at all,' Clyburn said Wednesday. Math check (Jack Bog's Blog)
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