- a portion of bread or cake baked in a shaped or molded mass, usually oblong with a rounded top: I try to keep a loaf of sliced bread in the freezer.
- a shaped or molded mass of food, as of ground meat or vegetables: The loaf is made with lentils and vegetables, and you can see the colorful bits of bell peppers speckled through it.
- British.
- the rounded head of a cabbage, lettuce, etc.
- head or brains: Use your loaf.
- to idle away time: He figured the mall was as good a place as any for loafing.
- to lounge or saunter lazily and idly: We loafed for hours along the water's edge.
- to pass idly (usually followed by away): to loaf one's life away.
- a shaped mass of baked bread
- any shaped or moulded mass of food, such as cooked meat
- the head; sense
- to loiter or lounge around in an idle way
- to spend (time) idly
