0 a type of leather shoe without a fastening, that a person's foot slides into --
1 someone who avoids doing any work: --
an idle loafer
2 a type of shoe with stitches around the top and without shoelaces (= strings used to tie shoes) --
There are many different types of shoes that exist, such as running, walking, loafers, high heels, sandals, slippers, work boots, dress shoes, and many more.
He wears a green bowtie and brown loafers.
A large number of them are hardly distinguishable from loafers, or from those who do bits of street trading, which is a proficient school for the wastrels and thieves.
The half loafers had no connection with the loafing fraternity who occupy the other benches.
He does not mean to say that all unemployed persons are loafers, or that any appreciable percentage of them are loafers.
We have still got a mixed workhouse, where children and deserving old people are still crowded with the vicious the idle, and the loafers.
The men who will not work are loafers.
They were not the loafers of the town.