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loaf



Pronunciation: (lōf), [key]
—n.,
—pl. loavesPronunciation: (lōvz). [key]
1. a portion of bread or cake baked in a mass, usually oblong with a rounded top.
2. a shaped or molded mass of food, as of sugar or chopped meat: a veal loaf.
3. Brit.
a. the rounded head of a cabbage, lettuce, etc.
b. Slang (older use). head or brains: Use your loaf.

loaf



Pronunciation: (lōf), [key]
—v.i.
1. to idle away time: He figured the mall was as good a place as any for loafing.
2. 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.

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