loafer
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noun \ˈlō-fər\Definition of LOAFER
2
: a low step-in shoe
See Examples of LOAFER
- <an incorrigible loafer who never accomplished anything>
Origin of LOAFER
perhaps short for landloafer, from German Landläufer tramp, from Land + Läufer runner
First Known Use: 1830
Related to LOAFER
- Synonyms
- couch potato, deadbeat, do-nothing, drone, idler, layabout, lazybones, lotus-eater, slouch, slug, slugabed, sluggard
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