daylights
/ˈdeɪlaɪts/
daylights noun: a person's eyes (mostly as a target in fighting). Also the plural of daylight.
Noun
daylights pl (plural only)
- A person's eyes (mostly as a target in fighting).
- Jason only hit him once, but he really darkened his daylights.
- Wits, consciousness; the insides, the essence; used as an intensifier, most commonly in the daylights out of or the living daylights out of.
Also used as
daylights is also the plural of daylight.
Words formed from daylights
Phrases with daylights
- beats the daylights out of
- beaten the daylights out of
- knocks the daylights out of
- scared the daylights out of
- scares the daylights out of
- beating the daylights out of
- knocked the daylights out of
- scaring the daylights out of
- knocking the daylights out of
- knocks the living daylights out of
- scared the living daylights out of
- scares the living daylights out of
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Questions about daylights
- What does daylights mean?
- Daylights means a person's eyes (mostly as a target in fighting).
- What part of speech is daylights?
- Daylights is a noun.
- How do you pronounce daylights?
- Daylights is pronounced /ˈdeɪlaɪts/.
Words near daylights in the dictionary
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