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🛌 A reclined position 🧗 A climbing move ↩️ To lean back
layback

layback

6.4
A backward-leaning position for rest or balance
  • noun
  • /ˈleɪˌbæk/
translation icon : posición reclinada
  • She settled into a comfortable layback on the sofa to watch her favorite show.

Examples

  • He prefers to relax in a layback position on the couch.

  • During yoga, I often find a comfortable layback helps me focus.

  • After the long hike, he enjoyed a relaxing layback on the grassy hill.

  • The climber used a layback technique to move up the crack in the rock face.

  • After the long hike, he enjoyed a relaxing layback on the grassy hill.

  • She settled into a comfortable layback on the sofa to watch her favorite show.

  • During yoga, I often find a comfortable layback helps me focus.

Antonyms

upright
44 2.7

Standing straight up and not leaning

How Reclined

layback
6.4
reclining
3.7

Surface Forms

layback singular
laybacks plural

Morphology

layback = lay + back (transparent) = lay + back + lay

The noun is a straightforward compound of 'lay' + 'back' meaning a position of leaning or reclining, which learners can infer from the parts.

Etymology

Layback comes from two simple English parts, lay ('to put down' or 'lie') and back ('toward the rear'), so imagine 'laying back' on a sofa and leaning backward to relax. That image explains why layback means a backward-leaning or reclining position for balance or rest.