loafers

Noun (1)

loafer (plural loafers)

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...1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, page 39

   Synonyms:

   bum, bumpkin, footler, idler, lout, yob, yobbo

2. A shoe with no laces, resembling a moccasin.
   • Someone must explain to Sunak about the time bomb ticking beneath his £1,000 loafers.2023 May 31, Nigel Harris, “Comment: GBR now! We have no Plan B”, in RAIL, number 984, page 3

Noun (2)

loafer (plural loafers)

1. A particular orthogonal spaceship in Conway's Game of Life that moves at a speed of c/7, and the smallest such example.

Noun (3)

loafer (plural loafers)

1. (Southwestern, US, dialectal) A wolf, especially a grey or timber wolf.
   • The great menace to livestock, other than the continual battle with cold, [...] was the gray wolf. [...] The big loafers came in from everywhere.1964, Ike Blasingame, Dakota Cowboy: My Life in the Old Days, page 72

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