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loaf

UK/ləʊf/ US/loʊf/ fairly common informal slang
noun (1) verb (2)

noun

1.

verb

1.
2.

be about

  • “The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square”
  • “Who is this man that is hanging around the department?”
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Origin

From Middle English laf, lof, loof, from Old English hlāf (“bread; loaf”), from Proto-West Germanic *hlaib, from Proto-Germanic *hlaibaz (“bread; loaf”), of uncertain origin.

Phrases

  • barracouta loaf
  • confinement loaf
  • cottage loaf
  • disciplinary loaf
  • Dutch loaf
  • farmhouse loaf
  • farthing loaf
  • flesh loaf

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