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Meanings of loafer in English

Russian
лоферы
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Type of low, lace-less shoe.

        Related terms
        лоферы
        Portuguese
        vagabundo
        Catalan
        mandrós
        Spanish
        vago

        Person who does no work.

              vagabundo
              Usage of loafer in English
              1
              For Marty Day was not the only young loafer in the town.
              Janice Day at Poketown
              2
              The governor appointed a loafer fellow, in the early days, Port Warden.
              The Adventures of a Forty-niner / An Historic Description of Cal...
              3
              Stepping over to the other side, her right loafer crunched in something.
              Salem’s Lot
              4
              The one thing you cannot do is loafer with a heavy heart.
              The prince of frogtown
              5
              In so far as I am an artist, I am a loafer.
              A Christmas Garland
              6
              The Gucci furry loafer is undoubtedly the fashion totem of Autumn 2015.
              The Guardian
              7
              The brutal loafer changed countenance as he caught the red man's eye.
              Rolf in the Woods
              8
              His father nudged a haunch with the toe of his cordovan loafer.
              The new yorker
              9
              Enter the driving moccasin- aflexibleleather loafer with a grippy rubber sole.
              Wired
              10
              They are a slipper-loafer hybrid, and are meant to be worn indoors.
              NY Magazine
              11
              Rather have no help at all than have a loafer helping me.
              Bull Hunter
              12
              Francie slumped on a shoe bench, halfheartedly slipping out of her loafer.
              Chosen: a novel
              13
              Was he a man or only a crosseyed thief an a loafer?
              Major Barbara
              14
              Who do you think would take that drunken loafer's word against mine?
              The Lady Doc
              15
              Nemo shrugged and scuffed the dust with the toe of his loafer.
              Boy’s Life
              16
              The dog returned from the bedroom with one loafer in his mouth.
              Fear nothing
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              Translations for loafer
              Portuguese
              vagabundovadio
              Loafer through the time
              Loafer across language varieties
              United Kingdom
              Common
              United States of America
              Less common