Usually means: Ambush or intercept unexpectedly, delay.
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  1. waylay: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. waylay: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. waylay: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. waylay: Collins English Dictionary
  5. waylay: Vocabulary.com
  6. waylay: Wordnik
  7. waylay: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. waylay: Wiktionary
  9. waylay: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. waylay: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. waylay: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. waylay: Dictionary.com
  13. waylay: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Waylay: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. waylay: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. waylay: Rhymezone
  17. waylay: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. waylay: Free Dictionary
  19. waylay: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. waylay: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  21. waylay: Dictionary/thesaurus
  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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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To lie in wait for and attack from ambush.
verb:  (transitive) To accost or intercept unexpectedly.

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    charcoal,     midnight blue,     slate gray,     burgundy,     olive green,     rust,     forest green,     maroon,     gunmetal,     dark brown



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