loafer

1. (cellular automata) A particular orthogonal spaceship in Conway's Game of Life that moves at a speed of c/7, and the smallest such example.

1. (Southwestern US dialects) A wolf, especially a grey or timber wolf.Examples: "The great menace to livestock, other than the continual battle with cold, [...] was the gray wolf. [...] The big loafers came in from everywhere."; "Cowboys had killed “loafers” at five hundred yards away with rifles. [...] Lucille was not like most cowhands and she sets out to capture the "loafer" with her lariat."; "By the 1890s loafers had become such a problem that some newly organized counties, as well as certain cattle outfits, paid bounties for their scalps. For a cowboy making a dollar or so a day, wolf-hunting could be lucrative."SouthwesternUSdialectal