grass

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Etymology [edit]

From Middle English gras, gres, gers, from Old English græs, gærs (grass, blade of grass, herb, young corn, hay, plant; pasture), from Proto-Germanic *grasą (grass), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰreh₁- (to grow).

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Grass.

grass (countable and uncountable; plural grasses)

  1. (countable, uncountable) Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem, wrap around it for a distance, and leave, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.
  2. (uncountable) A lawn.
  3. (uncountable, slang) Marijuana.
  4. (countable, slang) An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities.
  5. (uncountable, physics) Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced by random interference.
  6. (uncountable, slang) Noise on an A-scope or similar type of radar display.

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grass (third-person singular simple present grasses, present participle grassing, simple past and past participle grassed)

  1. (transitive) To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.).
    • 1893, Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Naval Treaty’, Norton 2005, p.709:
      He flew at me with his knife, and I had to grass him twice, and got a cut over the knuckles, before I had the upper hand of him.
  2. (transitive or intransitive, slang) To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities.

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From Latin crassus. Compare French graisse.

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grass m

  1. fat