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say it: LOY-tur
loiter is a verb meaning "be about". It carries one recorded sense.
be about
“The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square”
“Who is this man that is hanging around the department?”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for loiter come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.