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layabouts

layabouts is the plural of layabout.

Meaning of layabout

Noun

layabout (plural layabouts)

  1. (informal, slang) A lazy person.
    • “That’s better. Gilbert Goodie! I should have known it was you. The one-legged layabout. The uni-ped idler. The stumpy skiver. Stealing coins from a wishing well now, are we? You couldn’t make it up!”2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN

Questions about layabouts

What is layabouts the plural of?
Layabouts is the plural of layabout.

Words near layabouts in the dictionary

  1. lay-outs
  2. lay-up
  3. lay-ups
  4. laya
  5. layabout
  6. layabouts
  7. Layac
  8. layan
  9. layaned
  10. layaning
  11. layans

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