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  1. loaf of bread, loafnoun

    a shaped mass of baked bread that is usually sliced before eating

    Synonyms:
    loaf of bread

  2. loafverb

    a quantity of food (other than bread) formed in a particular shape

    "meat loaf"; "sugar loaf"; "a loaf of cheese"

    Synonyms:
    loaf of bread

  3. bum, bum around, bum about, arse around, arse about, fuck off, loaf, frig around, waste one's time, lounge around, loll, loll around, lounge aboutverb

    be lazy or idle

    "Her son is just bumming around all day"

    Synonyms:
    loll around, bum about, get, arse about, wank, lounge around, mill around, frig around, droop, lounge about, footle, lurk, bum around, lounge, grub, loiter, fool around, loll, horse around, mill about, bum, bugger off, lollygag, buzz off, lallygag, arse around, jerk off, tarry, linger, mooch, cadge, hang around, jack off, fool, masturbate, mess about, scram, she-bop, waste one's time, sponge

  4. loiter, lounge, footle, lollygag, loaf, lallygag, hang around, mess about, tarry, linger, lurk, mill about, mill aroundverb

    be about

    "The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square"; "Who is this man that is hanging around the department?"

    Synonyms:
    loll around, bushwhack, bum about, hover, arse about, lounge around, mill around, frig around, arse around, mess about, lurk, bum around, lounge, waylay, loiter, loll, mill about, bum, mill, hang around, lollygag, skulk, lallygag, footle, tarry, ambuscade, linger, lie in wait, scupper, ambush, lounge about, dawdle, waste one's time

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  1. loafverb

    Synonyms:
    [Colloquial.] lounge, be idle, idle away one's time

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  1. loafverb

    Synonyms:
    lounge about, loiter

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "loaf":

    bread, roast

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How to use loaf in a sentence?

  1. President Biden:

    Everything from a gallon of gas to a loaf of bread costs more, and it's worrisome, many people remain unsettled about the economy, and we all know why. They see higher prices.

  2. Clive Staples Lewis:

    We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.

  3. Chinese Proverb:

    When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.

  4. Raymond Martin:

    In London, this is where the phrase' spend a penny' came from, as it cost a penny to use these facilities -- the equivalent of buying a loaf of bread in those days.

  5. Bill Maher:

    Doesn't it behoove the people who rejected the half a loaf and continue to attack … Hamas's charter says they just want to wipe out The Israelis. Their negotiation position is' You all die,' the two-state solution has been on the table a number of times. There could be an Arab capital in East Jerusalem now if Yasser Arafat had accepted that in 2003. He did not.


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