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n. - Someone who hangs around aimlessly in or about a place.

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  • On occasion, they may ask a truly recalcitrant lingerer to sign a statement acknowledging the risks of staying behind.
  • Puamana was superstitious, solitary, vain about her looks, never late, indeed fanatical in matters of punctuality, a brisk walker, not a loiterer or a lingerer.
  • For the listener; for the lingerer with a love glides
  • Tarry thou yet, late lingerer in the twilight's glory
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