loiterers
Those who dawdle
Loiterers are people who hang around a place without obvious purpose.
The word often appears in legal or commercial contexts—signs warn against loitering, and police may disperse loiterers from storefronts or public spaces.
The term carries a faint suggestion of suspicion or nuisance: The manager called security about the loiterers in the parking lot.
Habitually unproductive people
- loafersLaceless slip-on shoes
- dawdlersThose who move slowly
- lingerersThose who remain behind
- slackersThose who avoid effort
layabouts · loungers · lollygaggers · time-wasters · malingerers · shirkers · stragglers · laggards
Aimless travelers, homeless rovers
- vagrantsHomeless itinerant people
- wanderersThose who drift aimlessly
- vagabondsHomeless itinerant travelers
- transientsTemporary occupants or travelers
homeless · hobos · tramps · nomads · itinerants · panhandlers · beggars · squatters
Those who observe unseen
- skulkersThose who lurk furtively
- prowlersThose who sneak stealthily
- watchersThose who look on
- stalkersThose who obsessively pursue
casing · shadowing · hovering · surveilling · trespassers · snoops · intruders · suspects
Those causing problems deliberately
- hooligansViolent young troublemakers
- delinquentsYoung criminals or troublemakers
- rowdiesNoisy, disorderly people
- miscreantsWrongdoers or lawbreakers
vandals · riffraff · rabble · hoodlums · ne'er-do-wells · nuisances · trespassers · undesirables
idlers
Habitually unproductive people
slackers · layabouts · loungers · lollygaggers · time-wasters · malingerers · shirkers · stragglers · laggards · procrastinators
drifters
Aimless travelers, homeless rovers
- vagrantsHomeless itinerant people
- wanderersThose who drift aimlessly
- vagabondsHomeless itinerant travelers
transients · homeless · hobos · tramps · nomads · itinerants · panhandlers · beggars · squatters · roamers
lurkers
Those who observe unseen
stalkers · casing · shadowing · hovering · surveilling · trespassers · snoops · intruders · suspects · creepers
troublemakers
Those causing problems deliberately
- hooligansViolent young troublemakers
- delinquentsYoung criminals or troublemakers
- rowdiesNoisy, disorderly people
miscreants · vandals · riffraff · rabble · hoodlums · ne'er-do-wells · nuisances · trespassers · undesirables · ruffians
- layaboutsslacker, slackers, deadbeat, deadbeats, loafer
- nuisancespest, ants, bugs, flies, roaches
- pedestrianspedestrians, walkers, walking, passersby, foot traffic
- urban nuisanceslitter, noise, traffic, trash, garbage
- slackersslackers, loafers, idlers, idler, layabouts
- hoverershummingbirds, dragonflies, helicopters, drones, quadcopters
loitererspassersby
People going past
commuters · pedestrians · travelers · rushers · transients