0 past simple and past participle of loiter
1 to move slowly around or stand in a public place without an obvious reason:
Calls to attend to emergencies in the wards were sent through ward attendants who loitered en route and nullified any sense of urgency.
But how many young swains have loitered for the chance of a glimpse of an unobtainable object of desire?
If we had loitered, there might still be a strike on.
I also think that if an undergraduate of twenty loitered in a public place for an improper purpose he, if found guilty, would be sent down.
If we had loitered, we should still have been heading for the million or more unemployed which was the prospect if that dispute had continued for very long.
He survived an effort of the sheriff to arrange his ambush by loudly offering driving directions, while white supremacists loitered nearby.
Those who loitered or were drunk or unemployed were arrested and auctioned off as laborers to those who paid their fines.
Members of different gangs loitered in the parks she worked at, and she noticed the graffiti and knew they were territorial markings.
