Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - loaf

~1 n plural loaves, 1 bread that is shaped and baked in one piece and can be cut into slices  (a loaf of bread) 2 meat/nut loaf meat or nuts that have been cut very finely, pressed together, and baked 3 use your loaf BrE old-fashioned used to tell someone to be more sensible or think harder ~2 v informal to waste time in a lazy way when you should be working  (loaf around/about)  (They spend all day loafing around on street corners.)