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See also: grass-tops and grass tops

English

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Alternative forms

Etymology

Perhaps modelled on grassroots.

Pronunciation

Adjective

grasstops (not comparable)

  1. (idiomatic) Of, related to, or involving local influential figures.

Noun

grasstops

  1. plural of grasstop

Noun

grasstops (plurale tantum)

  1. People in a position of power or influence at a local level.
    • 2010, Wendell Potter, Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR IS Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans, Bloomsbury Press, published 2010, →ISBN, page 35:
      Or, when just the 'grasstops' are needed, we recruit just a few of a target's key friends or contributors to join us.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:grasstops.
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