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grass

grass [ grass ]

noun (plural grass or grass·es)

Definition:

1. green plant that forms lawns: a low green narrow-leaved plant that grows in fields and gardens, is eaten by animals such as cows and sheep, and is used to make lawns and playing fields

2. grass-covered area: an area of grass such as a lawn or pasture

Keep off the grass.

3. hollow-stemmed green plant: a plant with hollow jointed stems and long narrow, usually green leaves and tiny flowers arranged in spikes. Grasses include important food plants such as wheat, oats, barley, rice, rye, corn, millet, and sorghum as well as sugar cane and bamboo. Family Gramineae.

4. plant like grass: a green plant not related to the true grasses, e.g. cleavers or knotgrass

5. drugs ( slang )
Same as marijuana

6. U.K. informer: somebody who informs on somebody else, especially to the police ( slang )

verb (past and past participle grassed, present participle grass·ing, 3rd person present singular grass·es)

Definition:

1. transitive and intransitive verb cover with grass: to become covered with grass, or cause ground to become covered with grass

2. intransitive verb U.K. be informer: to inform on somebody, especially to the police ( slang )

3. transitive verb feed animal on grass: to put an animal into a pasture to feed on grass

[ Old English græs, gærs< Indo-European]

not let the grass grow under your feet to act without delay or wasting time

put somebody out to grass U.K. to impose retirement on somebody, usually on grounds of age (informal)

Cultural Note


	Leaves of Grass, a collection of verse (1855-1892) by poet Walt Whitman. Whitman constantly revised and expanded this collection to create a work that celebrates all aspects of human life from politics to the natural world and from procreation to mortality. Both its subject matter and its self-consciously modern style, based on long, loosely rhymed lines, were highly influential.