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  • n  having no employment
  • v  be lazy or idle
  • v  be about

  • Auerbach dutifully drives his Celtics in frequent practice sessions; once, when he detected loafing, he sent the champions ignominiously puffing up and down the cliff-steep aisles .
  • Pilot Cooper persuaded Polish authorities to let him recruit a squadron of War-trained pilots still loafing in Paris cafes.
  • Sticking to the same old styleloafing off the pace until the last lap and then spurting to the tapeVillanova's Irish Olympian Ron Delany stuck to the same old habit of .
News & Articles

  • Today's Top 5: Monday
    Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today, June 17, 2013 as selected by the folks at Creative Loafing . * Monday Jazz Jam at Poor Richard's Book Shoppe * Lucius at Stage Door Theater * All You Can Bowl at Strike City * The Monday Night Allstars at Double Door Inn * SIN Best of the 80's at Comet Grill [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
    June 17, 2013 - Creative Loafing Charlotte
  • Today's Top 5: Sunday
    Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today, June 16, 2013 as selected by the folks at Creative Loafing . * The Divine Sister at Actor's Theatre of Charlotte * The Color Purple at Ovens Auditorium * Juneteenth Festival of the Carolinas at Independence Park * Charlotte Knights vs. the Columbus Clippers at Charlotte Knights Stadium * Carnaval Carolina at ...
    June 16, 2013 - Creative Loafing Charlotte
  • Today's Top 5: Saturday
    Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today, June 15, 2013 as selected by the folks at Creative Loafing . * Brew Stash Bash at U.S. National Whitewater Center * Grizzly Bear at Uptown Amphitheater * 2013 Connolly Cup at Elon Park * Charlotte Speed Demons at Metrolina Tradeshow Expo * Beatles Tribute Night at Knight Theater [ Subscribe to the comments on ...
    June 15, 2013 - Creative Loafing Charlotte
Quotes

  • Bill Cunningham in Cincinnati Enquirer
    Adam Dunn looks like a monkey with a football in left field,Cunningham said. "He has to have consequences for what he does. That is again a loafing ballplayer who ...... would have blew a .15 if someone gave (him) the intoxilizer last...
  • Jim Leyland in Sports Network
    I think we're fighting our (butts) off,said Detroit manager Jim Leyland. "We know what's at stake. I didn't see anybody loafing, not caring. They looked pretty excited to win to me."
  • Joe Torre in MLB.com
    It's OK if he goes out there and he's not worried about people saying, 'He's loafing after the ball,'Torre said. "If he plays, we'll encourage him to be measured with what he does. Let the ball go to the wall."

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