loaf

noun

1. A block of bread after baking.

   “Philander went into the next room[…]and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm. Then he put the coffee pot on the stove and rummaged out a loaf of dry bread and some hardtack.”

2. Any solid block of food, such as meat or sugar.

   “sugar-loaf”

3. (Cockney, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, slang)Ellipsis of loaf of bread: the brain or the head.

   “use one's loaf”

4. A solid block of soap, from which standard bar soap is cut.
5. A particular still life configuration with seven living cells.

   “It runs for 17331 generations before stabilizing as 136 blinkers, 109 blocks, 65 beehives, 18 loaves, 18 boats, 7 ships, 4 tubs, 3 ponds, 2 toads, and 40 gliders.”

   “Running a LWSS into it can produce various debris. One of these reactions produces a loaf. When the loaf is properly hit with other LWSSs, it can be pulled backwards.”

   “I am looking for the smallest ancestor of the following four loaf pattern in Conway's Game of Life:”

6. (informal, slang)A catloaf.

verb

1. (Cockney, slang)To headbutt
2. (intransitive)To do nothing, to be idle.

   “loaf about, loaf around”

   “2015, Elizabeth Royte, Vultures Are Revolting. Here’s Why We Need to Save Them., National Geographic (December 2015)https://web.archive.org/web/20151213095110/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2016/01/vultures-text They don’t (often) kill other animals, they probably form monogamous pairs, and we know they share parental care of chicks, and loaf and bathe in large, congenial groups.”