grease
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
printing
publishing
Etymology: From Middle English grece, from Anglo-Norman grece, from Vulgar Latin *grassia, noun derived from Latin crassus (“fat, thick”). Doublet of crass.
Inflected forms:
form: greases
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: greases
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: greasing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: greased
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: greased
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Animal fat in a melted or soft state.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any oily or fatty matter.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
gloss: Shorn but not yet cleansed wool.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Inflammation of a horse's heels, also known as scratches or pastern dermatitis.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Money.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
examples: Some of the people I talked to said it could be done—but it would cost big money. More grease than I’d ever dreamed of.
gloss: Synonym of fat (“work containing much blank, profitable to the compositor”).
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
slang
uncountable
gloss: To put grease or fat on something, especially in order to lubricate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To bribe.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: the greas'd advocate that grinds the poor
Then you remember we greased him to the tune of five hundred.
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.
gloss: To cause to go easily; to facilitate.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
gloss: To perform a landing extraordinarily smoothly.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: To my amazement, I greased the landing despite the tricky crosswinds.
gloss: To kill.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
gloss: To have sexual intercourse with.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: 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
gloss: To cheat or cozen; to overreach.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: You have greased him / For chewing love again in haste
gloss: To affect (a horse) with grease, the disease.
pos: verb
gloss: To depart or slip away.
pos: verb
Derived words: amber grease
amber-grease
apple grease
bacon grease
bear's grease
begrease
boot-grease
cow grease
cow's grease
dielectric grease
dirty grease
elbow grease
elbow-grease
golden grease
goose grease
greaseball
greaseband
greaseboard
greasebomb
grease-box
grease boy
greaseburger
grease bush
grease fitting
greasegrass
grease gun
grease-gun
greasehead
greaseless
greaselike
grease money
grease monkey
grease-monkey
grease moth
greasen
grease nipple
greasepaint
grease-paint
grease payment
grease pencil
grease pit
grease pot
greaseproof
grease spot
grease the skids
grease up
greasewood
greasiness
greasy
hart of grease
like grease through a goose
more grease to your elbow
relative bearing grease
silicone grease
stew in one's own grease
thermal grease
the squeaky wheel gets the grease
ungrease
wool grease
yellow grease
Yorkshire grease
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
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