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loiterer

loiterer noun: one who loiters, one who lingers or hangs around.

Noun

loiterer (plural loiterers)

  1. One who loiters, one who lingers or hangs around.
    • Though unusual in the Dublin area he knew that it was not by any means unknown for desperadoes who had next to nothing to live on to be abroad waylaying and generally terrorising peaceable pedestrians by placing a pistol at their head in some secluded spot outside the city proper, famished...Episode 16
    • […] currently incarcerated Stinc Team members Ketchy the Great, SaySoTheMac, and Bambino; the devilish and gravelly Almighty Suspect; red-clad Inglewooder and headband connoisseur FreeAckrite; baby-faced Martin Luther King Park loiterer Johnny Rose; […]2019 February 5, Torii MacAdams, “The New Generation of LA Rap Is Changing Everything”, in VICE

loiterer meaning in Tamil and Kannada

loiterer in Tamil

சோம்பேறி, நோக்கமற்று சுற்றித்திரிபவன், கோடிதூங்கி, வேலைமினக்கெட்டவன்

loiterer in Kannada

ಅಲ್ಲಲ್ಲೇ ಅಡ್ಡಾಡುತ್ತಿರುವವ, ಅಲ್ಲಲ್ಲೇ ಅಡ್ಡಾಡುತ್ತಿರುವವನು, ಅಲ್ಲಲ್ಲೇ ಅಡ್ಡಾಡುತ್ತಿರುವವಳು

Forms of loiterer

pluralloiterers

Origin of loiterer

From loiter + -er.

Questions about loiterer

What does loiterer mean?
Loiterer means one who loiters, one who lingers or hangs around.
What is loiterer in Tamil?
Loiterer in Tamil is சோம்பேறி, நோக்கமற்று சுற்றித்திரிபவன், கோடிதூங்கி. See Loiterer meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is loiterer?
Loiterer is a noun.
What is the plural of loiterer?
The plural of loiterer is loiterers.

Words near loiterer in the dictionary

  1. loiter times
  2. loiter-sack
  3. loiter-sacks
  4. loiterature
  5. loitered
  6. loiterer
  7. loiterers
  8. loiterest
  9. loitereth
  10. loitering
  11. loitering munition

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Adapted from Wiktionary: loiterer (page history and authors); loiterer (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); loiterer (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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