Meanings
plural loiterers
- One who loiters, one who lingers or hangs around.
[…] currently incarcerated Stinc Team members Ketchy the Great, SaySoTheMac, and Bambino; the devilish and gravelly Almighty Suspect; red-clad Inglewooder and headband connoisseur FreeAckrite; baby-faced Martin Luther King Park loiterer Johnny Rose; […]
2019 February 5, Torii MacAdams, “The New Generation of LA Rap Is Changing Everything”, in VICE1 more example
Though unusual in the Dublin area he knew that it was not by any means unknown for desperadoes who had next to nothing to live on to be abroad waylaying and generally terrorising peaceable pedestrians by placing a pistol at their head in some secluded spot outside the city proper, famished loiterers of the Thames embankment category they might be hanging about there or simply marauders ready to decamp with whatever boodle they could in one fell swoop at a moment's notice, your money or your life, leaving you there to point a moral, gagged and garrotted.
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Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Afrikaans drelkous
- drelkousa person who loiters
Bulgarian безделник, кибик
- безделник (bezdelnik)a person who loiters
- кибик (kibik)a person who loiters
Finnish norkoilija, vetelehtijä
- norkoilijaa person who loiters
- vetelehtijäa person who loiters
Māori mōnaroa
- mōnaroaa person who loiters
Swahili mzururaji
- mzururajia person who loiters
Cite this entry
loiterer. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/loiterer
“loiterer.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/loiterer. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “loiterer,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/loiterer.
Source: loiterer on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.