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lay
verb
to have sex UK, 1800
Most often heard in the passive.- Ella Mae laying me because I wasn’t married and she figured she had enough for me and Henry too[.] — Chester Himes, If He Hollers Let Him Go, p. 6, 1945
- There had been Marjorie, broken in by Slicker Morris, and after his pioneering effort she had laid for every guy in the place. — James T. Farrell, Saturday Night, p. 30, 1947
- You know, all I really want is to get laid. That’s what I’m really complaining about. — John Clellon Holmes, Go, p. 8, 1952
- When’d you get laid last? — George Mandel, Flee the Angry Strangers, p. 221, 1952
- A minute before she’d been all set to lay, and it probably wouldn’t have made any difference if I hadn’t had a dime. — Jim Thompson, The Killer Inside, p. 11, 1952
- How would you like it if people came in on you, laid your girls and then wanted to put it on the cuff? — William Burroughs, Junkie, pp. 76–77, 1953
- I found this irksome, as I was beginning again to feel lonely and like laying half Manhattan island (the half that was female). — Clancy Sigal, Going Away, p. 420, 1961
- [T]hey discussed how it would be to lay that little nurse with the birthmark who went off at midnight.” — Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, p. 289, 1962
- Thus it was that I got laid for the first time in my life in February of that new year[.] — John Nichols, The Sterile Cuckoo, p. 96, 1965
- [A]ccording to informed rumour, [Danny Cohn-Bendit] was to have laid [...] the daughter of a member of de Gaulle’s cabinet. — Richard Neville, Play Power, p. 44, 1970
- I rarely make love / I mostly get laid — Loudon Wainwright III, Suicide Song, 1971
- Jimmy, goddamn it–loosen up and get laid. — Bull Durham, 1988
- I think you need to get laid or something. — Francesca Lia Block, I Was a Teenage Fairy, p. 109, 1998
▶ lay a batch
to accelerate a car quickly and in so doing to leave rubber marks on the road US, 1969- — Capitol Records, Hot Rod Jargon, 1963
- — Ken “Naz” Young, Naz’s Dictionary of Teen Slang, p. 71, 1993
▶ lay a cable
to defecate AUSTRALIA- You can “Go lay a cable” or “Do number two” Or “Sit on the tooty” or “Do a do-do.” — Sam Weller, Old Bastards I Have Met, p. 34, 1979
- Cos the mongrel laid a cable in the sandpit[.] — Ian Dury, This is What We Find, 1979
- — Sonya Plowman, Great Kiwi Slang, p. 112, 2002
▶ lay a fart
to fart US- This guy sitting in the row in front of me, Edgar Marsalla, laid this terrific fart. — J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, 1951
▶ lay a log
to defecate UK
Extended from LOG[T]he poor old lady had obviously died of a heart attack whilst laying a log, fallen off the shitter and blocked the door with her head. — FHM, p. 250, June 2003▶ lay chilly
to relax US- Finally he decided, “We’ll crawl down the streambed. Stay low, find a good spot, lay chilly.” — A.D. Horne, The Wounded Generation, p. 67, 1981
- Originally Vietnam war usage. — Washington Post Magazine, p. 17, 28 June 1987: “Say wha?”
- “Wait!” I said. “Get the ARVN up here first, and tell these guys to lay chilly.” — Michael C. Hodgins, Reluctant Warrior, p. 152, 1996
▶ lay dead- to remain silent US
- — John R. Armore and Joseph D. Wolfe, Dictionary of Desperation, p. 38, 1976
- to stay in one place; to stay still US
- — Babs Gonzales, Be-Bop Dictionary and History of its Famous Stars, p. 9, 1949
- to idle, to waste time fooling around US
Vietnam war usage. - — Linda Reinberg, In the Field, p. 125, 1991
▶ lay dog
to lie motionless in the jungle US
Vietnam war reconnaissance patrol usage.- — Linda Reinberg, In the Field, p. 125, 1991
- I told everyone to lay dog for thirty minutes to see what the gooks were going to do. — John Burford, LRRP Team Leader, p. 97, 1994
▶ lay down some sparks
to accelerate a car suddenly from rest, bringing the car frame or body into contact with the road and producing a shower of sparks US- — Edith A. Folb, Runnin’ Down Some Lines, p. 244, 1980
▶ lay down the law
to dogmatise, especially in an argument; to insist on a mode of behaviour UK, 1762- The incident occurred only a few hours after the coaches of both sides had laid down the law to their players following a lecture from Lloyd about on-field behaviour at the close of play on Wednesday. — The Guardian, 12 December 2003
▶ lay eggs
to drop bombs US- Anyway, the air force drivers were laying eggs all over the designated VC installations zone we wuz s’pose to move in on and sop up being grunts which is what you do with shit–that’s the way they seed us[.] — Clarence Major, All-Night Visitors, p. 36, 1998
▶ lay heat
to fart US- — Peter Furze, Tailwinds, p. 114, 1998
▶ lay in the cut
to wait in hiding US- I laid in the cut on Carmen’s big butt / And kept her on her knees all night. — Dennis Wepman et al., The Life, p. 49, 1976
▶ lay it down- in motorcyle racing, to spin out or fall, causing the motorcyle and the earth to meet; to intentionally throw a motorcyle on its side in the face of an impending accident US
- — Don Dempsey, American Speech, p. 270, December 1962: “The language of traffic policemen”
- — Ed Radlauer, Motorcylopedia, p. 38, 1973
- I laid it down. — Douglas Dunford, Motorcycle Department, Beaulieu Motor Museum, 1979
- to explain the rules of a carnival midway game to a potential customer US
- — Gene Sorrows, All About Carnivals, p. 21, 1985: “Terminology”
▶ lay it on
to inform, to report or explain fully US- You know what to do with the stiffs, and remember to call Amos’ ol’ lady and lay it on her. — Donald Goines, Inner City Hoodlum, p. 108, 1975
- Well, I’m gonna lay it on you one time, for the record. — Edwin Torres, Carlito’s Way, p. 5, 1975
▶ lay it on thick; lay it on with a trowel; lay it on
to do something in an excessive manner UK, 1600- Blair laid it on with a trowel, quoting from the Koran[.] — The Observer, 7 October 2001
- In normal circumstances, you could say the song was laying it on a bit thick, but these are not normal circumstances, and the song works to chilling effect. — The Guardian, 12 September 2003
▶ lay on the iron
in motor racing, to move inside another car on a turn, forcing it up and out of the fastest part of the track US- — John Edwards, Auto Dictionary, p. 94, 1993
▶ lay paper
to pass counterfeit money or bad cheques US- [H]e goes over there and starts laying this paper [writing checks]. — Bruce Jackson, In the Life, p. 286, 1972
▶ lay pipe
(used of a male) to have sex US, 1939- “No more overhauls, and you’re going to hafta stop laying pipe with all the guys.” — Jose Antonio Villarreal, Pocho, p. 141, 1959
- — Collin Baker et al., College Undergraduate Slang Study Conducted at Brown University, p. 150, 1968
- Gonna lay some pipe, six inches at a time. — Joseph Wambaugh, The Choirboys, p. 313, 1975
▶ lay the leg
to seduce or attempt to seduce US- — Don Wilmeth, The Language of American Popular Entertainment, p. 155, 1981
▶ lay the note
to shortchange someone US- — Robert C. Prus and C.R.D. Sharper, Road Hustler, p. 170, 1977: “Glossary of terms”
▶ lay the smack down
to engage in a physical fight US- — Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, p. 5, Spring 1999
▶ lay track
to lie US- — William K. Bentley and James M. Corbett, Prison Slang, p. 33, 1992
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