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loafer
UK /ˈləʊfə/ US /ˈloʊfɚ/
noun 4verb 1
Collocations
3VERB + LOAFER
capture
LOAFER + NOUN
lariat
PREP.
with
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.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
noun — person who does no work
- idler
- do-nothing
- layabout
- bum
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
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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 cr
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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,
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Someone must explain to Sunak about the time bomb ticking beneath his £1,000 loafers.
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The great menace to livestock, other than the continual battle with cold, [...] was the gray wolf. [...] The big loafers came in from everywhere.
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Cowboys had killed “loafers” at five hundred yards away with rifles. [...] Lucille was not like most cowhands and she sets out to capture the "loafer" with her lariat.
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By the 1890s loafers had become such a problem that some newly organized counties, as well as certain cattle outfits, paid bounties for their scalps. For a cowboy making a dollar or so a day, wolf-hun
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