loaf

1. 1.

   be lazy or idle

   “Her son is just bumming around all day”

   Synonymsbumbum aroundbum aboutarse aroundarse aboutfuck offfrig aroundwaste one's timelounge aroundlollloll aroundlounge about

   Broaderidle
2. 2.

   be about

   “The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square”

   “Who is this man that is hanging around the department?”

   Synonymsloiterloungefootlelollygaglallygaghang aroundmess abouttarrylingerlurkmill about

Other forms of loaf

plural

loaves

past tense

loafed·

present participle

loafing·

third person

loafs·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about loaf

What does loaf mean?

loaf means "a shaped mass of baked bread that is usually sliced before eating". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in loaf?

loaf has 1 syllable: loaf. In IPA it is /ˈloʊf/.

What is another word for loaf?

Close synonyms include loaf of bread, bum, bum around, bum about, arse around. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is loaf a common word?

loaf is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.