English edit

Noun edit

lay-bye (plural lay-byes)

  1. Alternative form of lay-by
    • 2014, Marit Meredith, The Loss:
      Jennie pulled over into a lay-bye, turned off the engine and buried her head in her hands. She wept.
    • 2014, Michael Pekenham, Love Thine Enemy:
      I can't believe he's that clever to have boarded a boat or an aeroplane without being spotted. Also we've found a Range Rover in a lay-bye outside Belfast.
    • 2018, Susan Widdicombe, Tales of Inner Turmoil I, page 83:
      The assassin's anonymous white van wound serenely along the coast road in the shimmering heat of a June afternoon. ere was no other trac on the road and the assassin raked the hazy distance ahead in search of the lay-bye where he was sure steve had stopped to answer the assassin's promised telephone call at exactly half-past three.