as in slug
a lazy person
an incorrigible loafer who never accomplished anything
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Recent Examples of loafer
Vionic 23Walk Walking Sneakers These walking sneakers from Vionic have a sporty loafer appearance, with a durable sneaker-like outsole.
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Melony Forcier, Travel + Leisure, 8 Oct. 2025
Coach Camilla Espadrille These Coach loafers channel coastal-grandma style in the best way—they’re just begging to be paired with breezy linens.
—Melanie Fincher, Southern Living, 7 Oct. 2025
These are nice alternatives to loafers, offering a preppy feel from a more casual standpoint.
—Jessie Quinn, StyleCaster, 7 Oct. 2025
Koolaburra by Ugg Lezly Slipper, $19 with Prime These slippers look like moccasins and loafers combined, only much, much more snuggly.
—Alyssa Grabinski, PEOPLE, 7 Oct. 2025
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Melony Forcier, Travel + Leisure, 8 Oct. 2025
Coach Camilla Espadrille These Coach loafers channel coastal-grandma style in the best way—they’re just begging to be paired with breezy linens.
—Melanie Fincher, Southern Living, 7 Oct. 2025
These are nice alternatives to loafers, offering a preppy feel from a more casual standpoint.
—Jessie Quinn, StyleCaster, 7 Oct. 2025
Koolaburra by Ugg Lezly Slipper, $19 with Prime These slippers look like moccasins and loafers combined, only much, much more snuggly.
—Alyssa Grabinski, PEOPLE, 7 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for loafer
Noun
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The 170-grain slug socked him right between the horns.—
Bob Cary,
Outdoor Life,
15 Oct. 2025
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California has 42 official state symbols after Governor Newsom signed three bills to create new symbols in 2024, including the Dungeness crab as the state crustacean, the banana slug as the state slug, and the black abalone as the state seashell.—
Martha McHardy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Russian drones have made a clear sky into a source of terror for Ukrainian young people.—
Robert F. Worth,
The Atlantic,
19 Oct. 2025
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As one of the main organizers of the Tianjin exhibition, the People’s Liberation Army focused on displaying its latest aviation assault assets, featuring an array of helicopters, drones, and airborne weapon systems.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
19 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Bill got his second deer, and hurt his bum knee while packing out the animal.—
Marguerite Reiss,
Outdoor Life,
9 Oct. 2025
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Cora planned for his players to test the right fielder’s bum elbow — the Red Sox always attack pinstriped vulnerabilities on the basepaths — and sure enough Nick Sogard turned a single into a double in the seventh because Judge can’t throw the ball.—
Ian O'Connor,
New York Times,
1 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Moles eat insects, snail larvae, spiders, and small invertebrates, but their favorite foods are earthworms and white grubs.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
17 Oct. 2025
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In addition to sea slugs, other snails have been known to graze on bryozoan.—
Ashley Mackin Solomon,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
15 Oct. 2025
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His discoveries promise to upset the gaming tables of every school of thought that wagers on new and untested art for idlers’ rewards: the love of novelty, the will to make or unmake reputations, the wish to be hip or au courant.—
Mark Greif,
Harper's Magazine,
26 July 2024
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Their name exudes the essence of an idler and slacker, but women’s loafers themselves are quite the opposite.—
Gaby Keiderling,
Harper's BAZAAR,
19 Jan. 2023
Noun
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Climate change is supercharging the winds of the strongest Nor’easters, a recent study found, and this one will be no slouch.—
Mary Gilbert,
CNN Money,
11 Oct. 2025
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The Tigers are no slouch in the American Conference and have respectable College Football Playoff aspirations.—
Sam Sklar,
Mississippi Clarion Ledger,
18 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Scar then proceeds to desolate the kingdom, with the help of hyenas, while Simba, in exile, grows up to become a pleasure-hunting, grub-eating sluggard.—
Anthony Lane,
The New Yorker,
19 July 2019
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Clearly, supervision at your job is lax, and your sluggard classmate is taking advantage of that.—
Kwame Anthony Appiah,
New York Times,
11 Oct. 2017
Noun
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The revolution is in tatters, and DiCaprio’s Bob, once a celebrity rebel, is now a benignly useless substance-using layabout who tries, in his shambling way, to take care of his and Perfidia’s daughter, Willa (played with a no-nonsense radiance by Chase Infiniti).—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
17 Sep. 2025
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Dreux has entrusted Alyssa with delivering Uche’s money before the first of the month—but instead, Alyssa has asked her layabout, freeloading boyfriend Keshawn (Joshua David Neal) to put the money in Uche’s hands.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
4 Apr. 2025
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“Loafer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/loafer. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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