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• n  a shaped mass of baked bread that is usually sliced before eating
• n  a quantity of food (other than bread) formed in a particular shape
  meat loaf
  sugar loaf
  a loaf of cheese
• v  be lazy or idle
• v  be about

• Communism last week dropped a crumb on India's bare table, and ran away with a loaf of propaganda.
• Congress, which had hoped and planned for a lazy, two-months' loaf, will have just about half that.
• Then there are the workaday renovations: the store-bought zest that transforms the meat loaf, the iced tea in a bottle you can take on the run.

• loaf of bread
• bum
• bum around
• bum about
• arse around
• arse about
• fuck off
• frig around
• waste one's time
• lounge around
• loll
• loll around
• lounge about
• loiter
• lounge
• footle
• lollygag
• lallygag
• hang around
• mess about
• tarry
• linger
• lurk
• mill about
• mill around

News & Articles

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• High School Rodeo State Finals - June 13, 2013
  UHSRA State Finals Thursday, June 13, 2013 in Heber, Utah. You Caption Cal: Which caption is best for this cartoon? "At least the fish like my wife's meat loaf."
  June 15, 2013 - Standard-Examiner
• Meals on Wheels menu for the week of June 17
  Monday: Meat-loaf burger, potato salad, mix vegetables and apple sauce. Posted in Briefs on Friday, June 14, 2013 6:36 pm.
  June 14, 2013 - Sedalia Democrat
• 1 Dead In Shooting Outside Boise City Store, Suspect On Run
  It happened at the Loaf 'N Jug Wednesday afternoon when investigators say two men traveling together stopped for gas. While inside the store, one man fatally shot the other.
  June 12, 2013 - KWTV News9

Quotes

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• John Edwards in FOXNews
  No more we'll-get-around-to-it-next-time,Edwards said. "No more taking half a loaf. No more tomorrow. For the men and women who are leaving this country to serve in Iraq, there is no tomorrow."
• Arlen Specter in Seattle Times
  The bill "is very, very heavily tilted to Wall Street and not to Main Street. ...... It's the little guy who's not being taken care of," said Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa. "This is not half a loaf, this is a crumb."
• Roy Williams in SI.com
  They know what to do, but they have to build habits,Williams said. "In high school they were so much quicker and athletic and they could loaf a little defensively. At this level they are playing guys just as quick. They have to keep...