1.  loaf(n = noun.food) loaf of bread - a shaped mass of baked bread that is usually sliced before eating;
is a kind of bread, breadstuff, staff of life
has parts: heel
has particulars: french loaf, meat loaf, meatloaf

2.  loaf(n = noun.food) - a quantity of food (other than bread) formed in a particular shape; "meat loaf"; "sugar loaf"; "a loaf of cheese"
is a kind of food, solid food
has particulars: loaf sugar, sugar loaf, sugarloaf, pound cake, haslet, headcheese, lunch meat, luncheon meat, scrapple

1.  loaf(v = verb.stative) arse about, arse around, bum, bum about, bum around, frig around, fuck off, loll, loll around, lounge about, lounge around, waste one's time - be lazy or idle; "Her son is just bumming around all day"
is one way to idle, laze, slug, stagnate
Derived form noun loafer₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s PP

2.  loaf(v = verb.stative) footle, hang around, lallygag, linger, loiter, lollygag, lounge, lurk, mess about, mill about, mill around, tarry - be about; "The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square"; "Who is this man that is hanging around the department?"
is one way to be
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s PP

   Any thick lump, mass, or cake; especially, a large regularly shaped or molded mass, as of bread, sugar, or cake. Bacon. [1913 Webster]

   To spend time in idleness; to lounge or loiter about. W. Black. [1913 Webster]

   To spend in idleness; -- with away; as, to loaf time away. [1913 Webster]

loaf, n. (pl. loaves)
1 a portion of baked bread, usu. of a standard size or shape.
2 a quantity of other food formed into a particular shape (sugar loaf; meat loaf).
3 sl. the head, esp. as a source of common sense (use your loaf).

Idiom:
loaf sugar a sugar loaf as a whole or cut into lumps.

loaf, v. & n.
--v.
1 intr. (often foll. by about, around) spend time idly; hang about.
2 tr. (foll. by away) waste (time) idly (loafed away the morning).
3 intr. saunter.
--n. an act or spell of loafing.

Etymology:
prob. a back-form. f. LOAFER

VB  be inactive, do nothing, move slowly, let the grass grow under one's feet, take one's time, dawdle, drawl, droil, lag, hang back, slouch, loll, lollop, lounge, poke, loaf, loiter, go to sleep over, sleep at one's post, ne battre que d'une aile, take it easy, take things as they come, lead an easy life, vegetate, swim with the stream, eat the bread of idleness, loll in the lap of luxury, loll in the lap of indolence, waste time, consume time, kill time, lose time, burn daylight, waste the precious hours, idle away time, trifle away time, fritter away time, fool away time, spend time in, take time in, peddle, piddle, potter, pudder, dabble, faddle fribble, fiddle-faddle, dally, dilly-dally, sleep, slumber, be asleep, hibernate, oversleep, sleep like a top, sleep like a log, sleep like a dormouse, sleep soundly, heavily, doze, drowze, snooze, nap, take a nap, dream, snore one's best, settle to sleep, go to sleep, go off to sleep, doze off, drop off, fall asleep, drop asleep, close the eyes, seal up the eyes, seal up eyelids, weigh down the eyelids, get sleep, nod, yawn, go to bed, turn, get some z's, stack z's, languish, expend itself, flag, hang fire, relax, render idle, sluggardize, mitigate.

N  size, magnitude, dimension, bulk, volume, largeness, greatness, expanse, amplitude, mass, proportions, capacity, tonnage, tunnage, cordage, caliber, scantling, turgidity, corpulence, obesity, plumpness, embonpoint, corporation, flesh and blood, lustihood, hugeness, enormity, immensity, monstrosity, giant, Brobdingnagian, Antaeus, Goliath, Gog and Magog, Gargantua, monster, mammoth, Cyclops, cachalot, whale, porpoise, behemoth, leviathan, elephant, hippopotamus, colossus, tun, cord, lump, bulk, block, loaf, mass, swad, clod, nugget, bushel, thumper, whooper, spanker, strapper, Triton among the minnows, mountain, mound, heap, largest portion, full size, life size, large, big, great, considerable, bulky, voluminous, ample, massive, massy, capacious, comprehensive, spacious, mighty, towering, fine, magnificent, corpulent, stout, fat, obese, plump, squab, full, lusty, strapping, bouncing, portly, burly, well-fed, full-grown, corn fed, gram fed, stalwart, brawny, fleshy, goodly, in good case, in good condition, in condition, chopping, jolly, chub faced, chubby faced, lubberly, hulky, unwieldy, lumpish, gaunt, spanking, whacking, whopping, walloping, thumping, thundering, hulking, overgrown, puffy, huge, immense, enormous, mighty, vast, vasty, amplitudinous, stupendous, monster, monstrous, humongous, monumental, elephantine, jumbo, mammoth, gigantic, gigantean, giant, giant like, titanic, prodigious, colossal, Cyclopean, Brobdingnagian, Bunyanesque, Herculean, Gargantuan, infinite, large as life, plump as a dumpling, plump as a partridge, fat as a pig, fat as a quail, fat as butter, fat as brawn, fat as bacon, immeasurable, unfathomable, unplumbed, inconceivable, unimaginable, unheard-of, of cosmic proportions, of epic proportions, the mother of all, teh granddaddy of all.

fish loaf, french loaf, loaf of bread, loaf sugar, meat loaf, salmon loaf, sugar loaf