grease
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English
Etymology
From Middle English grece (“grease”), from Anglo-Norman grece, from Old French graisse, from Vulgar Latin *grassia, from Latin crassus (“fat, thick”). Doublet of crass.
Pronunciation
- Noun
- (General American) enPR: grēs, IPA(key): /ɡɹis/
- (UK) enPR: grēs, IPA(key): /ɡɹiːs/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -iːs
- Homophone: Greece
- Verb
- (UK) enPR: grēs, IPA(key): /ɡɹiːs/
- (General American) enPR: grēs, grēz, IPA(key): /ɡɹis/, /ɡɹiz/
- Rhymes: -iːs (UK, US)
- Rhymes: -iːz (US)
Noun
grease (countable and uncountable, plural greases)
- Animal fat in a melted or soft state.
- (by extension) Any oily or fatty matter.
- Shorn but not yet cleansed wool.
- Inflammation of a horse's heels, also known as scratches or pastern dermatitis.
- (slang) Money.
- 1982, Stephen King, Survivor Type:
- 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.
Synonyms
Derived terms
- amber grease
- amber-grease
- bear's grease
- boot-grease
- cow grease
- cow's grease
- dielectric grease
- dirty grease
- elbow grease
- elbow-grease
- golden grease
- greaseball
- grease-box
- grease boy
- grease bush
- grease gun / grease-gun
- grease money
- grease-monkey
- grease monkey
- grease moth
- grease nipple
- greasepaint / grease-paint
- grease payment
- grease pencil
- grease pit
- greaseproof
- grease spot
- grease the skids
- grease up
- greasewood
- greasiness
- greasy
- hart of grease
- like grease through a goose
- stew in one's own grease
- thermal grease
- the squeaky wheel gets the grease
- wool grease
- yellow grease
- Yorkshire grease
Translations
animal fat
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oily or fatty matter
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shorn but not yet cleansed wool
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inflammation of a horse's heels
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Verb
grease (third-person singular simple present greases, present participle greasing, simple past and past participle greased)
- (transitive) To put grease or fat on something, especially in order to lubricate.
- (transitive, informal) To bribe.
- 1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “ The Third Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. , London: Printed for Jacob Tonson , →OCLC:
- the greas'd advocate that grinds the poor
- 2008, Byron Archibald Dunn, With Lyon in Missouri:
- Then you remember we greased him to the tune of five hundred.
- 2009, Dan Richardson, GOG - an End Time Mystery:
- 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.
- (transitive, informal) To cause to go easily; to facilitate.
- (transitive, slang, aviation) To perform a landing extraordinarily smoothly.
- To my amazement, I greased the landing despite the tricky crosswinds.
- (transitive, slang) To extinguish the life of.
- Synonyms: wax, wet, baptize, juice up; see also Thesaurus:kill
- (transitive, slang) To have sexual intercourse with.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:copulate
- 2022 November 22, BLP Kosher (lyrics and music), “Chopping Block” (track 3, 1:31 from the start), in BLP Kosher and The Magic Dreidel:
- 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
- (obsolete) To cheat or cozen; to overreach.
- 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):
- You have greased him / For chewing love again in haste
- To affect (a horse) with grease, the disease.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Terms derived from grease (verb)
Translations
put grease or fat on something
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to bribe
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to perform a landing extraordinarily smoothly
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