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Lyme

name, noun, verb, slang

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A town in New London County, Connecticut, United States.
  2. 2
    A solution stack consisting of the Linux operating system, Yaws web server, Mnesia database, and Erlang programming language.
  3. 3
    A town in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States.
  4. 4
    A town in Jefferson County, New York, United States.
  5. 5
    Synonym of Forest of Lyme, mainly in Staffordshire, England
Noun
  1. 1
    Lyme disease. informal, uncountable

    "Statewide there was a 16 percent increase in Lyme cases from 7,543 in 2016 to 8,720 last year."

Verb
  1. 1
    to hang out (to spend time doing nothing in particular) Jamaica, slang

    "But everyday,^([sic]) while all of this was going on, there'd be some lyming (hanging out)—and this is how the spirit of the music was absorbed, how apprentices both learned and caught on."

Etymology

Etymology 1

All three towns are named after Lyme Regis in Dorset, England.

Etymology 2

All three towns are named after Lyme Regis in Dorset, England.

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