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lay about

• beat or attack someone violently.
• "they weren't against laying about you with sticks and stones"

layabout noun

• a person who habitually does little or no work.
• "‘How'd you get mixed up with that layabout?’"
Similar: idler, good-for-nothing, ne'er-do-well, do-nothing, loafer, lounger, shirker, sluggard, slug, laggard, slugabed, malingerer, parasite, leech, waster, slacker, lazybones, slob, couch potato, skiver, lead-swinger, bludger, scrimshanker, wastrel, fainéant,
Opposite: workaholic,


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