grease
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: grēs
ipa: /ɡɹiːs/
enpr: grēs
enpr: grēz
ipa: /ɡɹis/
ipa: /ɡɹiz/
rhymes: -iːs stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -iːz stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: greases
form: greasing
form: greased
form: greased
Etymology: From Middle English grece, from Anglo-Norman grece, from Vulgar Latin *grassia, noun derived from Latin crassus (“fat, thick”).
Senses: glosses: To put grease or fat on something, especially in order to lubricate.
examples: text: the greas'd advocate that grinds the poor
ref: 1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Third Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:
text: Then you remember we greased him to the tune of five hundred.
ref: 2008, Byron Archibald Dunn, With Lyon in Missouri:
text: His employee status didn't entitle him to one, but Magdy on reception would slip him a key if Sabr greased him with a fifty.
ref: 2009, Dan Richardson, GOG - an End Time Mystery:
glosses: To bribe.
glosses: To cause to go easily; to facilitate.
examples: text: To my amazement, I greased the landing despite the tricky crosswinds.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To perform a landing extraordinarily smoothly.
synonyms: word: wax
word: wet
word: baptize
word: juice up
word: annihilate
word: bag
word: baptize
word: bereave of life
word: blight
word: bring down
word: bump off
word: bury
word: cack
word: compromised to a permanent end
word: croak
word: crush
word: dash
word: deactivate
word: dead
word: demolish
word: destroy
word: dispatch
word: dispose of
word: do
word: do in
word: dust
word: eliminate
word: end
word: eradicate
word: ex
word: exterminate
word: finish
word: finish off
word: flatten
word: grease
word: knock off
word: lay waste to
word: make away with
word: mortify
word: neutralize
word: obliterate
word: off
word: pay off
word: pick off
word: polish off
word: pop off
word: punch someone's ticket
word: put an end to
word: put down
word: put someone out of their misery
word: put six feet under
word: put to sleep
word: ravage
word: rub out
word: ruin
word: scotch
word: scupper
word: scuttle
word: send to eternity
word: send to hell
word: send to the grave
word: send to the great beyond
word: send to the next life
word: slay
word: slaughter
word: smash
word: smite
word: snuff
word: squash
word: stiff
word: stop someone's clock
word: take
word: terminate
word: terminate with extreme prejudice
word: top off
word: top
word: torpedo
word: take care of
word: take down
word: take out
word: waste
word: wax
word: wet
word: whack
word: wipe out
word: wreck
glosses: To extinguish the life of.
examples: text: I’m with a girl, call me Rick, I get my crank on
Choppa knock him out his briefs, ayy free willy
He a blood, why the fuck I’m greasin his bitty
ref: 2022 November 22, BLP Kosher, “Chopping Block” (track 3, 1:31 from the start), in BLP Kosher and The Magic Dreidel:
synonyms: word: approach
word: cohabit
word: company
word: copulate
word: couple
word: engage in sex
word: exchange flesh
word: have intimate relations
word: have marital relations
word: have sex
word: have sexual relations
word: intercourse
word: know
word: know someone in the biblical sense
word: make love
word: mate
word: share a bed
word: sleep together
word: strain
word: bang
word: bauf
word: beat
word: bone
word: boff
word: boink
word: bonk
word: bop
word: bounce
word: breed
word: bump nasties
word: bump uglies
word: catch a dick
word: dance
word: discuss Uganda
word: dip one's pen in someone's inkwell
word: do it
word: do the deed
word: do the nasty
word: eff
word: engender
word: expletive deleted
word: feck
word: frack
word: frak
word: frick
word: frig
word: fuck
word: get busy
word: get down
word: get freaky
word: get it
word: get it on
word: get jiggy
word: get laid
word: get lucky
word: get one's dick wet
word: get one's end away
word: get one's freak on
word: get one's groove on
word: get one's leg over
word: get one's oats
word: get physical
word: get some
word: get the dirty water off one's chest
word: graft the forked tree
word: go all the way
word: haul one's ashes
word: have it away
word: have it off
word: hide the salami
word: hide the sausage
word: hide the wienie
word: hike the Appalachian Trail
word: hook up
word: hump
word: jig-jig
word: knock boots
word: lay pipe
word: lay the pipe
word: make it
word: make out
word: make the beast with two backs
word: make whoopee
word: meddle
word: ming
word: Netflix and chill
word: penetrate
word: pipe
word: pipe down
word: play
word: play hide the sausage
word: pound
word: rail
word: ride
word: rock and roll
word: roger
word: roll around
word: root
word: screw
word: see someone's etchings
word: sex
word: shag
word: shelve
word: show someone one's etchings
word: slap bellies
word: stick
word: tumble
glosses: To have sexual intercourse with.
examples: text: You have greased him / For chewing love again in haste
ref: 1616–1619 (first performance), John Fletcher, “The Mad Lover”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: To cheat or cozen; to overreach.
glosses: To affect (a horse) with grease, the disease.
glosses: To depart or slip away.
Synonyms: sense: put grease or fat on
word: lard
sense: slang for kill or murder
word: bump off
sense: slang for kill or murder
word: hit
sense: slang for kill or murder
word: whack
Derived terms: degrease
greasable
greased landing
grease it on
grease one's gills
greaser
grease someone's palm
grease the hand
grease the wheels
nongreased
pregrease
regrease