grass

  • 41grass — I. noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English gras, from Old English græs; akin to Old High German gras grass, Old English grōwan to grow Date: before 12th century 1. herbage suitable or used for grazing animals 2. any of a large… …

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  • 42grass — 1 noun 1 IN FIELDS a) (U) a very common plant with thin green leaves that grows in fields and is often eaten by animals: a blade of grass | Please keep off the grass. b) (C) a particular kind of grass: sea grasses 2 DRUG (U) slang marijuana 3… …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 43grass —    1. to inform against    Rhyming slang on grass in the park, coppers nark:     Favours. Grassing. Blamires said. I ve nobody to grass on. (Kyle, 1975)    A grass is an informer:     There s a copper in that boy, you mark my words. He s a… …

    How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

  • 44Grass — Cette page d’homonymie répertorie les différents sujets et articles partageant un même nom. Grass peut faire référence à : Grass, le mot anglais pour herbe ; Grass, un village luxembourgeois ; Günter Grass, un écrivain… …

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  • 45grass — I. n 1. herbal cannabis, marihuana. British smokers traditionally preferred hashish, but began to import more marihuana in the mid 1960s. Grass was the predominant American term and had largely supplanted bush, pot, herb, etc. in British speech… …

    Contemporary slang

  • 46grass — [[t]græs, grɑs[/t]] n. 1) pln any of various plants that have jointed stems and bladelike leaves and are cultivated for lawns, used as pasture, or cut for hay 2) pln such plants collectively 3) pln any of numerous related plants 4) grass covered… …

    From formal English to slang

  • 47grass — noun 1》 vegetation consisting of short plants with long narrow leaves, growing wild or cultivated on lawns and pasture.     ↘ground covered with grass. 2》 a plant with jointed stems and spikes of small wind pollinated flowers, predominant in such …

    English new terms dictionary

  • 48Grass — /grahs/; Ger. /grddahs/, n. Günter (Wilhelm) /goon teuhr wil helm/; Ger. /gyuun teuhrdd vil helm/, born 1927, German novelist, poet, and playwright. * * * I Any of many low, green, nonwoody plants that make up the families Poaceae (or Gramineae) …

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  • 49grass — n. 1) to cut, mow (the) grass 2) high, tall grass 3) a blade; tuft of grass * * * [grɑːs] mow (the) grass tall grass tuft of a blade high to cut …

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  • 50grass —   Mau u (for various kinds, see Haw. Eng. entry and entries that follow it), weuweu.   Other kinds: aki aki, honohono, honohono kukui, ho omanewa, hulukoa e, kākonakona, kalamālō ( emoloa, kāwelu), kauwele, kauwelu, kili o opu, konakona, kualohia …

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