Usually means: Ambush or intercept unexpectedly, delay.
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  1. waylay: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. waylay: Merriam-Webster
  3. waylay: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. waylay: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. waylay: Collins English Dictionary
  6. waylay: Vocabulary.com
  7. waylay: Wordnik
  8. waylay: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. waylay: Wiktionary
  10. waylay: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. waylay: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. waylay: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. waylay: Dictionary.com
  14. waylay: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Waylay: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. waylay: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. waylay: Rhymezone
  18. waylay: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. waylay: FreeDictionary.org
  20. waylay: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. waylay: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. waylay: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. waylay: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. waylay: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Waylay: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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verb:  (transitive) To lie in wait for and attack from ambush.
verb:  (transitive) To accost or intercept unexpectedly.

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