Loaf

Quick meaning: Loaf is a noun meaning (also loaf of bread) A block of bread after baking.

Meaning

(also loaf of bread) A block of bread after baking.

More Meanings

1. Any solid block of food, such as meat or sugar.
2. (Cockney rhyming slang) Ellipsis of loaf of bread: the brain or the head.
3. A solid block of soap, from which standard bar soap is cut.
4. (cellular automata) A particular still life configuration with seven living cells.
5. (informal, slang) A catloaf.
6. (Cockney rhyming slang) To headbutt
7. (intransitive) To do nothing, to be idle.

Example Sentences

use one's loaf

loaf about, loaf around

I am looking for the smallest ancestor of the following four loaf pattern in Conway's Game of Life:

It runs for 17331 generations before stabilizing as 136 blinkers, 109 blocks, 65 beehives, 18 loaves, 18 boats, 7 ships, 4 tubs, 3 ponds, 2 toads, and 40 gliders.

Word Forms

• loaves
• loafs
• loafing
• loafed

Synonyms for loaf

Depending on context, synonyms include idle, laze, lounge, bonce, noddle, nut.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include lallygag, loiter, hang around, lurk, lounge, loll.

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