Definition of Loiter

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idle about; lag behind; waste time; hang about
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Loiter Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
(v. i.)
To wander as an idle vagrant.
  
(v. i.)
To be slow in moving; to delay; to linger; to be dilatory; to spend time idly; to saunter; to lag behind.
  
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loiter
\loi"ter\ (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. loitered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. loitering.] [d. leuteren to delay, loiter; cf; prov. g. lottern to be louse, lotter louse, slack, unsettled, vagrant, ohg. lotar.]
1. to be slow in moving; to delay; to linger; to be dilatory; to spend time idly; to saunter; to lag behind. sir john, you loiter here too long. if we have loitered, let us quicken our pace.
2. to wander as an idle vagrant. [obs.]

English Phonetics

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Dyhirio = v. to loiter
Llercian = v. to frisk; to loiter
Sefyllian = v. to stand often, to loiter
Segura = v. to idle, to loiter
Ystelc = n. a lurk; a loiter
Ystelcian = v. to lurk; to loiter
Anagram
      toiler
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Verb
1. be about; "The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square"; "Who is this man that is hanging around the department?"
(synonym) lounge, footle, lollygag, loaf, lallygag, hang around, mess about, tarry, linger, lurk, mill about, mill around
(hypernym) be
(hyponym) prowl, lurch
(derivation) loiterer, lingerer
Loiter Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Wikipedia English - The Free Encyclopedia
Loiter may refer to:
  • Loitering, in law, the act of remaining in a particular public place for a protracted time
  • Loiter (flight), in aviation, cruising for a certain amount of time over a small region

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Loiter Definition from Law Dictionaries & Glossaries
Law Dictionary
To linger for no evident reason, particularly in a public place, arounda school or near a transportation facility. There are criminal prohibitions ofsuch behavior as loitering for purposes of begging, gambling, solicitinganother to engage in sexual intercourse, or for the purpose of selling or usingdrugs.