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lymes

lymes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of lyme.

Meaning of lyme

Verb

lyme (third-person singular simple present lymes, present participle lyming, simple past and past participle lymed)

  1. (Jamaica, slang) to hang out (to spend time doing nothing in particular)
    • But everyday,^([sic]) while all of this was going on, there'd be some lyming (hanging out)—and this is how the spirit of the music was absorbed, how apprentices both learned and caught on.2006, Colin Channer, Iron Balloons: Hit Fiction from Jamaica's Calabash Writer's Workshop, page 19

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Questions about lymes

What is lymes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Lymes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of lyme.

Words near lymes in the dictionary

  1. lymecycline
  2. lymed
  3. lymegrass
  4. lymer
  5. lymers
  6. lymes
  7. Lymeswold
  8. lymexylid
  9. lymexylids
  10. lyming
  11. Lyminge

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lymes (page history and authors); lyme (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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