loaf
IPA: ɫˈoʊf
noun
- (also loaf of bread) A block of bread after baking.
- Any solid block of food, such as meat or sugar.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) The brain or the head (mainly in the phrase use one's loaf).
- A solid block of soap, from which standard bar soap is cut.
- (cellular automata) A particular still life configuration with seven living cells.
verb
- (Cockney rhyming slang) To headbutt
- (Internet slang) To assume or be in catloaf position (for cats or other animals)
- (intransitive) To do nothing, to be idle.
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Examples of "loaf" in Sentences
- The ends of the loaf are the best part.
- Democracy is the slow politics of the half loaf.
- Generally the smaller the mould, the finer the loaf.
- The entire stack was about the size of a loaf of bread.
- A special, festive loaf of bread is baked for this occasion.
- The bread deliveryman would impale the fresh loaf of bread on the nail.
- The microphone for the two of them was in a loaf of bread on the table.
- After the right amount of time, the cooked loaf of bread can be removed.
- But for many, crusts are part of the allure of a delicious loaf of bread.
- Basically, the crumb is everything that the crust isn't in a loaf of bread.
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