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Lyft

Lyft noun: a car ride requested using the mobile application Lyft.

Noun

Lyft (plural Lyfts)

  1. A car ride requested using the mobile application Lyft.
  2. The vehicle used for the ride.
  3. One's passenger or driver on Lyft.

Verb

Lyft (third-person singular simple present Lyfts, present participle Lyfting, simple past and past participle Lyfted)

  1. (intransitive, transitive, uncommon) To travel by means of the Lyft mobile app-based ridesharing service.
    • “How’d you get there?” “We Lyfted.” “Be there soon, we’re Lyfting.”2017 December 14, Heather Schwedel, “Let’s Uber. I’ll Call a Lyft.”, in Slate, archived from the original on 04 Mar 2021, retrieved 14 Dec 2017
  2. (intransitive, uncommon) To work or be employed as a driver for Lyft.

Forms of Lyft

Noun
pluralLyfts
Verb
third-person singular presentLyfts
present participleLyfting
past participleLyfted
pastLyfted

Words formed from Lyft

Questions about Lyft

What does Lyft mean?
Lyft means a car ride requested using the mobile application Lyft.
What part of speech is Lyft?
Lyft can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of Lyft?
The plural of Lyft is Lyfts.

Words near Lyft in the dictionary

  1. Lyeys
  2. lyfe
  3. lyfoline
  4. Lyford
  5. Lyfords
  6. Lyft
  7. Lyfted
  8. Lyfting
  9. Lyfts
  10. Lyga
  11. lygaeid

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