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plural loafers
An idle person. quotations examples
Along this unequal way, where loafers sat on whittled benches, lounged in doorways, leaned against porch props, Dan Gustin went pegging in his high-heeled boots like a mule in a Mexican chain hobble, holding a straight course for the hotel, past the doors of temptation.
1923, George Washington Ogden, “Chapter 2”, in The Baron of Diamond Tail
A shoe with no laces, resembling a moccasin. quotations examples
Someone must explain to Sunak about the time bomb ticking beneath his £1,000 loafers.
2023 May 31, Nigel Harris, “Comment: GBR now! We have no Plan B”, in RAIL, number 984, page 3
third-person singular simple present loafers, present participle loafering, simple past and past participle loafered
(dialect, intransitive) To loaf around; to be idle. examples
(Southwestern US dialects) A wolf, especially a grey or timber wolf. quotations examples
The great menace to livestock, other than the continual battle with cold, [...] was the gray wolf. [...] The big loafers came in from everywhere.
1964, Ike Blasingame, Dakota Cowboy: My Life in the Old Days, page 72
Cowboys had killed “loafers” at five hundred yards away with rifles. [...] Lucille was not like most cowhands and she sets out to capture the "loafer" with her lariat.
2010, Cynthia K. Rhodes, Lucille Mulhall: An Athlete of Her Time
By the 1890s loafers had become such a problem that some newly organized counties, as well as certain cattle outfits, paid bounties for their scalps. For a cowboy making a dollar or so a day, wolf-hunting could be lucrative.
2016, Patrick Dearen, A Cowboy of the Pecos, page 128