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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: person who does no work; "a lazy bum" [syn: idler, loafer, do-nothing, layabout, bum]
2: a low leather step-in shoe; the top resembles a moccasin but it has a broad flat heel

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: perhaps short for landloafer, from German Landläufer tramp, from Land + Läufer runner Date: 1830 1. one that loafs ; idler 2. a low step-in shoe

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 an idle person. 2 (Loafer) propr. a leather shoe shaped like a moccasin with a flat heel. Etymology: perh. f. G Landl{auml}ufer vagabond

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Loafer Loaf"er, n. [G. l["a]ufer a runner, Prov. G. laufer, lofer, fr. laufen to run. See Leap.] One who loafs; a lazy lounger. --Lowell.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(loafers) Loafers are flat leather shoes with no straps or laces. (mainly AM) N-COUNT

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Idler, lounger, vagabond, idle wanderer, vagrant.

Moby Thesaurus

Arab, beach bum, beachcomber, beggar, bo, bum, bummer, cadger, clock watcher, dallier, dawdle, dawdler, diddler, dillydallier, do-nothing, dogie, dolittle, doodler, drone, faineant, gamin, gamine, gentleman of leisure, goldbrick, goldbricker, goof-off, guttersnipe, hobo, homeless waif, idler, laggard, landloper, lazybones, lazzarone, lingerer, loiterer, loller, losel, lotus-eater, lounge lizard, lounger, lubber, mendicant, mendicant friar, mendicant order, moocher, mope, moper, mudlark, panhandler, piker, potterer, putterer, ragamuffin, ragman, ragpicker, rounder, schnorrer, scrounger, shirker, ski bum, slouch, sloucher, slug, slugabed, sluggard, stick-in-the-mud, stiff, stray, street Arab, street urchin, sundowner, surf bum, swagman, swagsman, tatterdemalion, tennis bum, time killer, time waster, tramp, trifler, turnpiker, urchin, vag, vagabond, vagrant, waif, waifs and strays, waiter on Providence, wastrel