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- noun Plural form of
layabout .
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Examples
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I think the poster’s point was that your layabouts are already pissing in public, whether you give them pissoirs or not.
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So what are we to make of the latest idea, that "layabouts" or "the workshy"
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That remark that person made about "layabouts" not having health insurance is totally incorrect.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Since when did the sunday times deem it acceptable to start a story about benefit changes with the word 'layabouts'?
The Guardian World News George Irvin 2010
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At this point the old reactionary cry that people who are unemployed or bailiff-ridden are 'layabouts' who have 'brought it on themselves' simply no longer holds true.
Indymedia Ireland 2009
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Oh, and the Coffee Elves really need to move a bit quicker in the morning, worthless layabouts!
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » SINK METAPHORS, TOAST FAIRIES, AND WRITING 2010
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Mrs Mops here is yer answer, let them out it is cheaper to put the layabouts on the dole and so the little old ladies get exercising staying away from get banged on the noggin. why bother?
Police Complaints; How Soon Is Now? « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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The Taser is poor defense weapon for the Political Correct 90 lb person, whom has passed the written tests, and has yet to master some Martial arts, when so many of the 250 lb layabouts be enjoying the best of Columbian brew, [leaves not the coffee nuts,] or someone enjoying L. s.d [rotting rye, not the former coin of the realm].
“Ruralshire Constabulary to get TASER on the front line” « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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Wil these ACORN members, union members and general layabouts who will be getting paid "cash money" to do this, be called MOBS by the MSM or will the Obama loving sheep just call them grassroots heroes?
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Cézanne's gamblers are far from the high-living layabouts more usually associated with this theme in paintings of rustic life.
This week's new exhibitions Robert Clark 2010
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