Definition of "grease"

grease

/ɡɹis/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural greases
1. Animal fat in a melted or soft state.
2. (by extension) Any oily or fatty matter.
3. Shorn but not yet cleansed wool.
4. Inflammation of a horse's heels, also known as scratches or pastern dermatitis.
5. (slang) Money.
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  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.
  1982, Stephen King, Survivor Type
verb
third-person singular simple present greases, present participle greasing, simple past and past participle greased
1. (transitive) To put grease or fat on something, especially in order to lubricate.
2. (transitive, informal) To bribe.
  Quotations
  the greas'd advocate that grinds the poor
  1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] 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 […]
  Then you remember we greased him to the tune of five hundred.
  2008, Byron Archibald Dunn, With Lyon in Missouri
  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.
  2009, Dan Richardson, GOG - an End Time Mystery
3. (transitive, informal) To cause to go easily; to facilitate.
4. (transitive, slang, aviation) To perform a landing extraordinarily smoothly.
5. (transitive, slang) To extinguish the life of.
6. (transitive, slang) To have sexual intercourse with.
  Quotations
  I’m with a girl, call me Rick, I get my crank onChoppa knock him out his briefs, ayy free willyHe a blood, why the fuck I’m greasin his bitty
  2022 November 22, BLP Kosher (lyrics and music), “Chopping Block” (track 3, 1:31 from the start), in BLP Kosher and The Magic Dreidel‎
7. (obsolete) To cheat or cozen; to overreach.
  Quotations
  You have greased him / For chewing love again in haste
  1616–1619 (first performance), John Fletcher, “The Mad Lover”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)
8. To affect (a horse) with grease, the disease.

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