Hays n 1: United States lawyer and politician who formulated a production code that prescribed the moral content of United states films from 1930 to 1966 (1879-1954) [syn: {Will Hays}, {William Harrison Hays}] 2: United States lawyer involved in several famous court trials (1881-1954) [syn: {Arthur Garfield Hays}] 3: a town in central Kansas