hay
grass, clover, alfalfa, etc., cut and dried for use as forage.
grass mowed or intended for mowing.
Slang.
a small sum of money: Twenty dollars an hour for doing very little certainly ain't hay.
money: A thousand dollars for a day's work is a lot of hay!
Slang. marijuana.
to convert (plant material) into hay.
to furnish (horses, cows, etc.) with hay.
to cut grass, clover, or the like, and store for use as forage.
Idioms about hay
a roll in the hay, Slang. sexual intercourse.
hit the hay, Informal. to go to bed: It got to be past midnight before anyone thought of hitting the hay.
in the hay, in bed; retired, especially for the night: By ten o'clock he's in the hay.
make hay of, to scatter in disorder; render ineffectual: The destruction of the manuscript made hay of two years of painstaking labor.
make hay while the sun shines, to seize an opportunity when it presents itself: If you want to be a millionaire, you have to make hay while the sun shines.: Also make hay.
Origin of hay
1Other words from hay
- hayey, adjective
- un·hayed, adjective
Other definitions for Hay (2 of 2)
John Milton, 1838–1905, U.S. statesman and author.
a river in NW Canada, flowing NE to the Great Slave Lake. 530 miles (853 km) long.
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British Dictionary definitions for hay (1 of 3)
/ (heɪ) /
grass, clover, etc, cut and dried as fodder
(in combination): a hayfield; a hayloft
hit the hay slang to go to bed
make hay of to throw into confusion
make hay while the sun shines to take full advantage of an opportunity
roll in the hay informal sexual intercourse or heavy petting
to cut, dry, and store (grass, clover, etc) as fodder
(tr) to feed with hay
Origin of hay
1British Dictionary definitions for hay (2 of 3)
hey
/ (heɪ) /
a circular figure in country dancing
a former country dance in which the dancers wove in and out of a circle
Origin of hay
2British Dictionary definitions for Hay (3 of 3)
/ (heɪ) /
Will. 1888–1949, British music-hall comedian, who later starred in films, such as Oh, Mr Porter! (1937)
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Other Idioms and Phrases with hay
see hit the hay; make hay while the sun shines; roll in the hay; that ain't hay.
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