Loafer

Quick meaning: Loafer is a noun meaning An idle person.

Meaning

An idle person.

More Meanings

1. A shoe with no laces, resembling a moccasin.
2. (dialect, intransitive) To loaf around; to be idle.
3. (cellular automata) A particular orthogonal spaceship in Conway's Game of Life that moves at a speed of c/7, and the smallest such example.
4. (Southwestern US dialects) A wolf, especially a grey or timber wolf.

Example Sentences

Someone must explain to Sunak about the time bomb ticking beneath his £1,000 loafers.

The great menace to livestock, other than the continual battle with cold, [...] was the gray wolf. [...] The big loafers came in from everywhere.

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.

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-hunting could be lucrative.

Word Forms

• loafers
• loafering
• loafered

Synonyms for loafer

Depending on context, synonyms include bumpkin, footler, idler, lout, yob, yobbo.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include layabout, idler, do-nothing, goldbricker, faineant, lofer.

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