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n A professional person qualified (as by a law degree and/or bar exam) and authorized to practice law, i.e. conduct lawsuits and/or give legal advice.
n By extension, a legal layman who argues points of law.
v (informal) To practice law.
v To perform, or attempt to perform, the work of a lawyer.
v To make legalistic arguments.
v With "up", to acquire the services of a lawyer.
v (colloquial|criminal law) With "up", to exercise the right to ask for the presence of one's attorney.
v To barrage with questions in order to get the person to admit something, usually used in the past tense "[You've been] lawyered."