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- noun Plural form of
loafer .
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Examples
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My husband lives in loafers, PLEATED khakis, and basic shirts.
The Devil Wears Sam's Club Jessica 2006
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Among the many crimes prisons have to answer for, their creation of chronic loafers is one of the gravest.
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a flimflam game, such as these loafers is putting up.
Chapter IX 2010
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a flimflam game, such as these loafers is putting up.
Chapter IX 1910
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Yep, I bet the “Dude” with the high-water green slacks accompanied by a navy-blue blazer and cool loafers is makin’ some heavy-duty fashion statements on his way to lunch.
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The women, seated on the steps and platform of the traders 'shops, could hardly be called loafers, for they had berries to sell, basketfuls of huckleberries, large yellow salmon-berries, and bog raspberries that looked wondrous fresh and clean amid the surrounding squalor.
Travels in Alaska John Muir 1876
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(Wagluḣe), Followers, commonly called loafers; A.L. Riggs thinks the word means "in-breeders."
Siouan Sociology James Owen Dorsey 1871
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Forty (40) million of these 70 million "loafers" are between age 50 and 62 (surprise!), still too young to be receiving social security.
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a man working up there at 800 meters at an incline of 70 or 80 degrees, and we saw that man making that effort, we would way to ourselves: how many times have our peasants been slandered -- they were called loafers, lazy.
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Programme, 36 percent of the population lives below the poverty line of one US dollar a day - this trend has spawned a new class of "loafers".
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