Crossword-Solution: LOITER 6 letters, 79 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

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Word Word Type Definition
Loiter v. i. To be slow in moving; to delay; to linger; to be
dilatory; to spend time idly; to saunter; to lag behind.
Loiter v. i. To wander as an idle vagrant.

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LOITER anagram LOIRET, TOILER, TRIOLE

We have 79 clues for the answer “LOITER”

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Waste time in one place 1 answer
Be a drugstore cowboy 1 answer
Dawdle around 1 answer
Don't make oneself useful 1 answer
Hang around aimlessly 1 answer
Hang around a public place 1 answer
Hang around doing a whole lot of nothing 1 answer
Hang around for no reason 1 answer
Hang around in a public place 1 answer
Hang without purpose 1 answer
Hang, so to speak 1 answer
Kill time in public 1 answer
LINGER on the way 1 answer
Linger idly 1 answer
Waste time in a place 1 answer
Stay in an aimless way 1 answer
Stand idly 1 answer
Stand around. 1 answer
Stand around aimlessly 1 answer
Remain without a reason 1 answer
Linger around a store without purpose 1 answer
Linger on way 1 answer
Linger; lurk 1 answer
Linger without purpose 1 answer
Linger aimlessly 2 answers
Tarry awhile 2 answers
Just hang around 2 answers
Hand around 2 answers
Hang around aimlessly 2 answers
Hang around, perhaps suspiciously 2 answers
Not leave 2 answers
Hang around idly 3 answers
Hang around too long 3 answers
SPEND time idly 5 answers
LEISURELY walk 6 answers
HANG about 6 answers
Lag behind 6 answers
idle away 7 answers
DROP back 7 answers
Lallygag 7 answers
Lollygag 10 answers
AROUND STICK 10 answers
BACK HANG 10 answers
Kill Time 10 answers
mill around 10 answers
A LENGTH OF TIME TO HANG AROUND ROWDY BAR IN REFUGE 10 answers
AROUND FOR HANG 10 answers
AROUND HANG 10 answers
Brogue 11 answers
stick around 12 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATERE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with LOITER (5)

Much and deservedly to my own discredit, therefore, and considerably to the detriment of my official conscience, they continued, during my incumbency, to creep about the wharves, and loiter up and down the Custom-House steps.
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992
Characters of this kind frequently pass through the Inn from a little foxhole of an alley at the back, but they never loiter there.
A Pair of Blue Eyes Thomas Hardy 1995
Now, seeing that life doth even to bee-folk bring Our human chances, if in dire disease Their bodies' strength should languish- which anon By no uncertain tokens may be told- Forthwith the sick change hue; grim leanness mars Their visage; then from out the cells they bear Forms reft of light, and lead the mournful pomp; Or foot to foot about the porch they hang, Or within closed doors loiter, listless all From famine, and benumbed with shrivelling cold.
The Georgics Virgil 2008
Their quarrels on this subject passed the boundary of the close-growing cedars, and were heard in the street by whoever wished to loiter and listen.
My Ántonia Willa Cather 1995
The very dogs had apparently no time to loiter, but scurried about as though late for their engagements.
The Ways of Men Eliot Gregory 2008

Quotes with LOITER (3)

By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream
Virginia Woolf
Therefore I would ask you to write all kinds of books, hesitating at no subject however trivial or however vast. By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream.
Virginia Woolf A Room of One's Own
Instead of imitating me, you simply loiter.
Dejan Stojanovic The Shape
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 102 times in crossword archives (1958–2025).