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LAZYBONES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lazybones mean? 

LAZYBONES (noun)
  The noun LAZYBONES has 1 sense:

1. a lazy personplay

  Familiarity information: LAZYBONES used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


LAZYBONES (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A lazy person

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("lazybones" is a kind of...):

bum; do-nothing; idler; layabout; loafer (person who does no work)

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)


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