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present singular third person lymes · participle present lyming · participle past lymed · past lymed

1. Jamaicaslangto hang out (to spend time doing nothing in particular)

   Guests were directed to the cocktail area where they lymed and enjoyed finger food with a choice of sorrel or fruit punch.

   2008 December 21, “Glitz, glamour and party!”, in Jamaica Gleaner

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   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.

   2006, Colin Channer, Iron Balloons: Hit Fiction from Jamaica's Calabash Writer's Workshop, page 19

   […] in Carlton's living room one Saturday evening, spending a few hours lyming over rum and, of all things, codfish dumplings, another thing Carlton loved, even in the evening […]

   2008, Thomas Glave, The Torturer's Wife, page 229

   Barnes, who organised the day's activities which involved several fathers and their children lyming at DaCosta Farms and Adventures, was very adamant that it is important for fathers to bond with their kids while they are still young.

   2018 June 17, “Auto Bonding - Fathers Use Automotives To Build Relationships With Their Children”, in Jamaica Gleaner

1. A surname.
2. A town in New London County, Connecticut, United States.
3. A town in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States.
4. A town in Jefferson County, New York, United States.
5. Synonym of Forest of Lyme, mainly in Staffordshire, England

   Synonyms: Forest of Lyme, mainly in Staffordshire, England

1. informaluncountableLyme disease.

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

   2018 August 23, “Lyme diseases cases spiked by 50 percent in Dutchess in 2017”, in Poughkeepsie Journal, archived from the original on 10 Apr 2021

1. computingA solution stack consisting of the Linux operating system, Yaws web server, Mnesia database, and Erlang programming language.