(also loaf of bread) A block of bread after baking. / Any solid block of food, such as meat or sugar.

(intransitive) To do nothing, to be idle. / (Cockney rhyming slang) To headbutt, (from loaf of bread)

A burden; a weight to be carried. / (figuratively) A worry or concern to be endured, especially in the phrase a load off one's mind.

(transitive) To put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage). / (transitive) To place in or on a conveyance or a place of storage. / (intransitive) To put a load on something.

(Internet slang, obsolete) A person that spends all day online. The term was originally used in the late 1980s to describe users on free Q-Link (later America Online) accounts who never signed off the system at great expense to the company.

(Jazz-age or flapper slang) An idler or pleasure-seeker; a person who spends considerable time loitering in bars and cocktail lounges. / A lounge singer, especially in Las Vegas.

Alternative form of lock-in

(transitive) To secure (someone or something) in a locked enclosure. / (transitive) To fix the value of (something potentially variable).

To inadvertently prevent (a person, particularly oneself) from entering a place, by leaving it locked. / (computing) To prevent from accessing a data structure.

(business, economics) An event in which an employer bars employees from working as a tactic in negotiating terms of employment, particularly in response to a strike or threat to strike.