loiterverb [ I ]
uk/ˈlɔɪ.tər/us/ˈlɔɪ.t̬ɚ/to move slowly around or stand in a public place without an obvious reason:
A gang of youths were loitering outside the cinema.
to go slowly, stopping often:
Come straight home and don't loiter, Alan.
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Slow and moving slowly
- at a snail's pace idiom
- by and by idiom
- by degrees idiom
- claw your way (somewhere) idiom
- clunky
- drift
- float
- hang around
- in ones and twos idiom
- inch by inch idiom
- infiltrate
- infiltration
- labour
- mill
- sluggish
- snail
- steadily
- steady
- straggle
- struggle
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loiterer
noun [ C ] uk/ˈlɔɪ.tər.ər/us/ˈlɔɪ.t̬ɚ.ɚ/