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loafer
UK /ˈləʊfə/ US /ˈloʊfɚ/
noun 4verb 1
Definitions
noun
1
An idle person.
The garden was bounded by a three-foot brick wall with a fringe of wood rails upon the top, and against this wall was leaning a stalwart police constable, surrounded by a small knot of loafers, who craned their necks and strained their eyes in the vain hope of catching some glimpse of the proceedings within.
Along this unequal way, where loafers sat on whittled benches, lounged in doorways, leaned against porch props, Dan Gustin went pegging in his high-heeled boots like a mule in a Mexican chain hobble, holding a straight course for the hotel, past the doors of temptation.
2
A shoe with no laces, resembling a moccasin.
Someone must explain to Sunak about the time bomb ticking beneath his £1,000 loafers.
verb
1
To loaf around; to be idle.
noun
1
A particular orthogonal spaceship in Conway's Game of Life that moves at a speed of c/7, and the smallest such example.
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