lie around

1. 1.

   hang around idly

   “She did all the work while he lay around”

   Synonymslie about

   Broaderidle

Questions about lie around

What does lie around mean?

lie around means "hang around idly".

What is another word for lie around?

Close synonyms include lie about. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is lie around a common word?

lie around is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.