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laid-back

adj

Etymology

From U.S. slang. The verbal phrase lay back is attested from the late 1950s, whereas the adjectival form emerged in print in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Presumably originally a metaphor—literally, “sitting in a tilted‐back chair”, a relaxed posture.

Definitions

  1. Relaxed and easy‐going

    Relaxed and easy‐going; demonstrating an absence of stress or worry.

    • This hit‐writer of the early 60s came out with a highly contemporary style which fitted the fashionable term ‘laid‐back’, and her Tapestry album zoomed up to become one of the three biggest‐selling LPs of all time.
    • You have to accept the deliberate unspeed of Italian timetables if you want the right to be liberated by their correspondingly laid‐back lifestyle.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA