Loafers
[ləʊfəz]
Examples
- As a number of loafers and hangers-on about the docks threatened injury to Fulton’s Folly, as the building boat was called, he had to engage watchmen to guard his property. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- A group of loafers upon the pavements, all staring up at a particular window, directed me to the house which I had come to see. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Hey, loafers, he called to the men who sat at the table. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The whole party examined the new comer with the interest with which a set of loafers in a rainy day usually examine every newcomer. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Inputed by George