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Lay on
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- 1 To provide (food or drinks) for free. idiomatic, transitive
"At the conference, they laid on a wonderful buffet."
- 2 To provide.
"Özil has 16 assists in the Premier League and three goals; he has two more goals in the Champions League. On Monday, he took Bournemouth apart in the 2-0 win at the Emirates Stadium, setting up the first for Gabriel and scoring the second himself. Özil laid on a total of nine chances, the majority of them for Walcott."
- 3 To apply or implement (something). transitive
"He laid on the solicitude pretty thickly."
- 4 To repeatedly say (particular types of thing). idiomatic, transitive
"He laid on compliments."
- 5 To do something excessively.
"I would I could see / this taborer! He lays it on."
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- 6 To cover something with a layer of (something). transitive
"He's going to lay on a coat of primer before painting the wall."
- 7 To give (money, drugs, etc.) to (someone). slang, transitive
"Maybe somebody would see him and recognize him, maybe one of the guys would lay enough bread on him for a meal or at least subway fare."
- 8 To impart or explain (something) in words to (someone). slang, transitive
"Lay some wisdom on me, man."
- 9 To attack or strike. archaic
"So the lad went back again to the north wind, and said that the goat wasn't worth anything, and he wasn't going to be done out of his meal, not he! "Well," said the north wind, "I have nothing else to give you but that old stick over there in the corner; but it is a good stick, and if you only say, 'Stick of mine, lay on,' it lays on, till you say, 'Stick of mine, leave off.'""
- 10 To give (something) as a gift, special treat or bonus. UK
- 11 To sail towards or to arrive at (a destination).
- 12 To vigorously row (an oar) to propel a boat or ship.
- 13 To feed sheets in for printing one by one. obsolete
- 14 To blame; to shift blame onto someone or something. colloquial
"He talked to the cops and laid it on me."
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