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vb. (en-third-person singularlay off)
Usage examples of "lays off".
So he calls one of the big bookies, in New York or Chicago or Miami, and lays off part of the money bet on that horse.
When I take the trouble to call around personally and tell a character to lay offhe lays off, Or else he lays down and dont get up.
When I take the trouble to call around personally and tell a character to lay off--he lays off, Or else he lays down and don't get up.
Or he is taught how to become master of the forces of nature so that, instead of cultivating corn in the old way, he can use a corn cultivator, that lays off the furrows, drops the corn into them, and covers it, and in this way he can do more work than three men by the old process of corn-planting.
His scam is, he thieves here and sells in Newcastle, and what he thieves there he lays off here.
King goes three and two (swinging wildly for the fences at one pitch in the dirt), and then lays off a pitch just inside to work a walk.
Someone gets sick or drunk and lays off for a circuit, or someone's kid comes along for the ride.
Someone gets sick or drunk and lays off for a circuit, or someones kid comes along for the ride.