grease
noun
- semi-solid, oily lubricant
- greasy heel or mud fever, a disease causing irritation to the lower limbs of horses
verb
- cover with grease
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ɡɹis/ / /ɡɹiːs/ / /ɡɹiz/
noun
Etymology: From Middle English grece, from Anglo-Norman grece, from Vulgar Latin *grassia, noun derived from Latin crassus (“fat, thick”). Doublet of crass.
- Animal fat in a melted or soft state.
- Any oily or fatty matter.
- Shorn but not yet cleansed wool.
- Inflammation of a horse's heels, also known as scratches or pastern dermatitis.
- Money.
“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.”
- Synonym of fat (“work containing much blank, profitable to the compositor”).
verb
Etymology: From Middle English grece, from Anglo-Norman grece, from Vulgar Latin *grassia, noun derived from Latin crassus (“fat, thick”). Doublet of crass.
- To put grease or fat on something, especially in order to lubricate.
- To bribe.
“the greas'd advocate that grinds the poor”
“Then you remember we greased him to the tune of five hundred.”
- To cause to go easily; to facilitate.
- To perform a landing extraordinarily smoothly.
“To my amazement, I greased the landing despite the tricky crosswinds.”
- To kill.
- To have sexual intercourse with.
“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”
- To cheat or cozen; to overreach.
“You have greased him / For chewing love again in haste”
- To affect (a horse) with grease, the disease.
- To depart or slip away.