Definition of "loaf" in English

noun

1. (also loaf of bread) A block of bread after baking.

2. Any solid block of food, such as meat or sugar.

3. (Cockney rhyming slang) Ellipsis of loaf of bread: the brain or the head.

   • use one's loaf

4. A solid block of soap, from which standard bar soap is cut.

5. (cellular automata) A particular still life configuration with seven living cells.

6. (informal, slang) A catloaf.

verb

1. (Cockney rhyming slang) To headbutt

verb

1. (intransitive) To do nothing, to be idle.

   • loaf about, loaf around
   • 2015, Elizabeth Royte, Vultures Are Revolting. Here’s Why We Need to Save Them., National Geographic (December 2015)https://web.archive.org/web/20151213095110/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2016/01/vultures-text They don’t (often) kill other animals, they probably form monogamous pairs, and we know they share parental care of chicks, and loaf and bathe in large, congenial groups.