loaf

Pluralloaves

Formsloafs, loafing, loafed

1. 1
   breadnouncountable

   Bread that has been baked in one big piece, which you can cut into slices.

   Can you buy a loaf of bread on your way home?

   She baked two loaves for the school fair.

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2. 2
   do nothingverbintransitive

   To spend time doing nothing at all.

   On Sundays I like to loaf around the house in my pajamas.

   The boys were loafing by the lake all afternoon.

   Similarlaze, lounge, idle, loll

   Oppositework

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3. 3
   food blocknouncountable

   Any food pressed into one solid block, like meat or sugar.

   Mom shaped the chopped meat into a loaf and put it in the oven.

   The cook broke a piece off the loaf of sugar for our tea.

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   cat posenounslangcountable

   A cat sitting with its legs tucked under it, so it looks like a loaf of bread.

   Look at the cat on the heater. She's a perfect loaf.

   Our two cats spent the whole afternoon as loaves on the windowsill.

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5. 5
   soap blocknouncountable

   A big block of soap that is cut into smaller bars.

   My aunt makes soap at home and cuts each loaf into twelve bars.

   The soap loaf needs two days to get hard before you cut it.

   Similarblock

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   headnoundialectalCockneyabbreviationellipsis

   Short for loaf of bread. It means your head or brain, often in the phrase use your loaf.

   Use your loaf and think before you answer.

   Mind your loaf on that low ceiling, mate.

   Similarhead, noggin, nut, bonce, noodle

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   headbuttverbdialectalCockneytransitive

   To hit someone hard with your head.

   He lost his temper and loafed the man next to him.

   Back off, or he'll loaf you.

   Similarheadbutt, butt

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   Game of Lifenouncountable

   In computer patterns like the Game of Life, a shape of seven live cells that never changes.

   When the pattern stopped changing, only a loaf was left on the grid.

   I drew a loaf on the screen and watched it stay exactly the same.

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