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Thesaurus: loiter

To be slow in moving; to delay; to linger; to be dilatory; to spend time idly; to saunter; to lag behind.

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Definitions

  1. v. i. To be slow in moving; to delay; to linger; to be dilatory; to spend time idly; to saunter; to lag behind.
  2. v. i. To wander as an idle vagrant.
  3. v. be about a place without any apparent purpose