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loaf: Meaning and Definition of
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loaf
Pronunciation:
(lōf),
[key]
— pl. loaves
a portion of bread or cake baked in a mass, usually oblong with a rounded top.
a shaped or molded mass of food, as of sugar or chopped meat:
a veal loaf.
Use your loaf.
the rounded head of a cabbage, lettuce, etc.
Slang (older use). head or brains:Use your loaf.
loaf
Pronunciation:
(lōf),
[key]
— v.i.
to idle away time:
He figured the mall was as good a place as any for loafing.
to lounge or saunter lazily and idly:
We loafed for hours along the water's edge.
—v.t.
to pass idly (usually fol. by away):
to loaf one's life away.
Random House Unabridged Dictionary,
Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
See also:
loaf
(Thesaurus)
loady
loaf bread
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