Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who loiters; an idler.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who loiters; an idler.
  • noun obsolete An idle vagrant; a tramp.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One who loiters, one who lingers or hangs around.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun someone who lingers aimlessly in or about a place

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Examples

  • Drawing nearer, Waggoner, who by name or by sight knew every resident of the town, made up his mind that the loiterer was a stranger.

    The Thunders of Silence 1910

  • I'm a loiterer in the Hallmark aisle of the drugstore, trying to choose a card.

    Jenée Desmond-Harris: When Fathers Fall Somewhere Between Awesome and Absentee Jenée Desmond-Harris 2010

  • In "Yvon's Paris," Robert Stevens's exhibition-in-a-book, the French photographer Yvon (Pierre Yves Petit) comes across as the ideal flâneur, a loiterer who happens to have brought along his camera.

    Graham Robb's "Parisians" and Yvon's Paris, photos of Pierre Yves Petit Michael Sims 2010

  • And if I remain here much longer, I shall be just such a loiterer.

    The Mistaken Wife Rose Melikan 2010

  • Puamana was superstitious, solitary, vain about her looks, never late, indeed fanatical in matters of punctuality, a brisk walker, not a loiterer or a lingerer.

    Beard 2010

  • And if I remain here much longer, I shall be just such a loiterer.

    The Mistaken Wife Rose Melikan 2010

  • Once, the police arrested him under a bridge as a loiterer.

    A World Apart: My uncle is a Hare Krishna spiritual master Chico Harlan 2010

  • And if I remain here much longer, I shall be just such a loiterer.

    The Mistaken Wife Rose Melikan 2010

  • But due to my vast and eclectic reading habits, I am already familiar with this excerpt from the O'Neill ouevre and consider it a masterpiece, so I can listen to Tony's excellent account of crazed druggies in London in his storied past while allowing my mind to wander a bit -- like to the intriguing headline in the tabloid of a nearby loiterer: "Cat predicts hour of patients 'deaths."

    Literary Death Match: Wednesday Night in Washington Square Park 2007

  • The curly-haired loiterer I recognized as Will Billingsley, Johns alleged former friend from the track team.

    Going Too Far Jennifer Echols 2009

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