grabass

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See also: grab-ass and grab ass

English

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Etymology

grab +‎ ass

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡɹæbˌæs/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Hyphenation: grab‧ass

Noun

grabass (uncountable)

  1. (informal, often used with the verb play) Sexual groping; erotic horseplay.
    • 1976, Thomas Glynn, Temporary Sanity: A Novel, →ISBN, page 66:
      [T]hey wouldn't do any work then, just hang around and drink and play grabass with her and she didn't want that.
    • 1997, Lee K. Abbott, “Chapter One of Wet Places at Noon”, in New York Times, retrieved 11 December 2015:
      Bobby was bear-hugging Sammy Vaughn and then playing grab-ass with Sammy's ex-wife Alice.
    • 2010, Regan Taylor, The Glass Cage, →ISBN, page 81:
      "I'm thinking a rousing game of grabass is in my future while you load the dishwasher." . . .
      "So y'all plannin' on grabbing my ass?"
      "That and a few other tempting body parts."
  2. (informal, often used with the verb play) Rowdy behavior; general horseplay or foolery.
    • 1967, Cool Hand Luke, spoken by Carr (Clifton James):
      There's no playing grab-ass or fighting in the building. You got a grudge against another man, you fight him Saturday afternoon. Any man playing grab-ass or fighting in the building spends a night in the box.
    • 1977, Philip Caputo, A Rumor of War (2014 Macmillan edition), →ISBN, p. 46 (Google preview):
      "Anything else? Yes, Lieutenant Lemmon?"
      "Yes, sir," Lemmon drawled. "How do I get out of this chicken-shit outfit?"
      "Knock off the grabass, Glen. Okay, listen up. When you brief your people, make it clear that our mission is defensive only."

Verb

grabass (third-person singular simple present grabasses, present participle grabassing, simple past and past participle grabassed)

  1. (informal) To fool around.

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