Definition of loiter Loiter
/lɔjˈtɚ/ - [loyter] - loi•ter
We found 6 definitions of loiter from 5 different sources.
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What does loiter mean?
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| loiter - be about; "The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square"; "Who is this man that is hanging around the department?" | ||
| lounge, footle, lollygag, loaf, lallygag, hang around, mess about, tarry, linger, lurk, mill about, mill around | ||
| be spend or use time; "I may be an hour" | ||
| prowl, lurch move about in or as if in a predatory manner; "The suspicious stranger prowls the streets of the town" | ||
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- loiter (v. i.)
To be slow in moving; to delay; to linger; to be dilatory; to spend time idly; to saunter; to lag behind. - loiter (v. i.)
To wander as an idle vagrant.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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loiter
loi′tėr, v.i. to delay: to be slow in moving: to linger.—n. Loi′terer.—adv. Loi′teringly. [Dut. leuteren, to trifle; Ger. prov. lottern, to waver.]
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🔤- loiter, verb, present, 1st person singular of loiter (infinitive).
- loiter, verb (infinitive).
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