loll

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loll about

1. To relax or spend time idly; to do nothing or very little. I'll just loll about for a while in the common area until you're finished with your class. I can't wait to go on my vacation and loll about the beach for two weeks!
2. To flop, droop, or roll around (some place) very lazily or slothfully. It's a gorgeous day outside, so you kids get off your butts and quit lolling about in front of the TV! I make a point of lolling about in bed as long as I want to on Sundays.
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loll around

To flop, droop, or roll around (some place) very lazily or slothfully. It's a gorgeous day outside, so you kids get off your butts and quit lolling around in front of the TV! I make a point of lolling around in bed as long as I want to on Sundays.
See also: around, loll

loll back

To flop, droop, or roll backward. Tom was so tired that his head kept lolling back in the car. After the meal, we all lolled back on the sofa to watch the football match.
See also: back, loll

loll out

To flop, droop, or roll out (of something). The driver was so drunk that he lolled out of the car when the police officer ordered him to get on the sidewalk. The dogs all sat in a row, their tongues lolling out in the hot sun.
See also: loll, out
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

loll about (some place)

to lie, lounge, or droop some place. The tired travelers lolled about all over the hotel lobby until their rooms were ready. They were still lolling about at three in the afternoon.
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loll around

to roll, flop, or hang around. The dog's tongue lolled around as it rolled on its back, trying to keep cool. Stop lolling around and get to work.
See also: around, loll

loll back

[for a head] to fall or droop backwards. As he passed out, his head lolled back and struck the corner of the table. Her head lolled back and suddenly she was fast asleep.
See also: back, loll

loll out

[for a tongue] to hang or flop out. The dog's tongue lolled out as it lay sleeping. Since the dog's tongue lolled out every time it opened its mouth, it is a wonder it didn't bite it when it closed its mouth.
See also: loll, out
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • loll about
  • laze
  • laze about
  • laze around
  • lounge
  • lounge around
  • loaf about
  • mark time
  • mooch about (somewhere)
  • mooch around (somewhere)
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Loll said: "Many of the children at Kurata and Spitler School come in daily without having eaten.
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Two months ago Tom Daschle could not pass anything that fortyone Republicans were willing to filibuster, and two months from now the same will be true for Trent Loll and forty-one recalcitrant Democrats.
People without jobs--paid jobs, that is--were routinely described as "parasites" who were content to loll around at the "public trough." This kind of talk, reiterated throughout the quarter century leading up to welfare reform, established the notion that paid work of any kind is a "contribution" to the larger society, while caring for one's family members is a form of self-indulgence.
Though he lives in Japan, as a 1985 Cooper Union graduate, Shigeru Ban is no stranger to New York and understands the special role of MoMA's sculpture garden as an oasis in the city, where afternoon visitors loll in Bertoia chairs among the sculptures and the groves of silver birch.
The Bryant Park BID was conceptualized in 1984 and has since changed a park that people avoided at all costs to a place where office workers go to eat lunch and loll in the sun.
LOLL Middleton sent in this picture of trophy-winning players from Hill Farm Youth Club in 1952 with the Coventry Service of Youth's Harry Weston Shield.
(Rest in peace.) Deepest sympathy to Rob, Carol and Loll. - Sister Elsie, Paul and Dave.
CUMMINGS Loll The family of the late Loll wish to express their sincere thanks to all relatives, friends and neighbours for their kindness, sympathy and lovely cards and flowers.
Under a squash trellis, a covey of chicks loll in the shadows,
THERE was a time when Brits travelled abroad to soak up the sun and enjoy a lazy loll by the sea.
Holmes and Watson came first, as if to promise that the show's mood would be set by the detective tale's calming pleasure in fatality, gentle mental challenge, and, in the case of Conan Doyle, its agreeable loll in Victoriana.
They loll at home while the rest of us wonder why it is that pupils of more prestigious schools never run into difficulties like this.
"They turn from speed machines to docile couch potatoes who love to loll around and get fussed.