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lair
1[ lair ]
noun
- a den or resting place of a wild animal:
The cougar retired to its lair.
- a secluded or hidden place, especially a secret retreat or base of operations; a hideout or hideaway:
a pirate's lair.
- British. a place in which to lie or rest; a bed.
verb (used with object)
- to place in a lair.
- to serve as a lair for.
verb (used without object)
- to go to, lie in, or have a lair.
lair
2[ lair ]
lair
4[ lair ]
noun
- a man who dresses garishly and is crude or vulgar; show-off.
lair
1/ lɛə /
noun
- a flashy man who shows off
verb
- intr; foll by up or around to behave or dress like a lair
lair
2/ lɛə /
noun
- the resting place of a wild animal
- informal.a place of seclusion or hiding
- an enclosure or shed for farm animals
- the ground for a grave in a cemetery
verb
- intr (esp of a wild animal) to retreat to or rest in a lair
- tr to drive or place (an animal) in a lair
lair
3/ ler /
noun
- a Scot word for mire
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Example Sentences
“The lair of the laser loves all of you,” he tells a visiting Atlas Obscura tour group.
In January the actor kidnapped Kimmel, tying him up in his lair.
He blamed agent Rossi for ruining his life, and over five years, brought women to an underground lair where he killed them.
She was only needed if Hitler was actually at the Wolf's Lair, though she never actually saw him.
He was not a recluse, however, as the documents and electronic chips recovered by the SEALs from his lair revealed.
No trail was so obtuse, no thicket so dense that members of that regiment would not track them to their lair.
The belated moon stole up from its lair, hovered above the sky-line, a gaudy orange sphere in the haze of smoke.
Every instinct and habit made her a stranger among these poor swamp-people living like vermin in their lair.
The boat will leap over laughing waters and flit home, as the muskawk to its lair when the sun dies.
Now he was up and about, cheerful and sunny, but a serious object lesson to the lion hunters bound for the lair of the lion.
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