grease
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- Royaume-Uni//ɡɹiːs//
- États-Unis//ɡɹis//
- États-Unis//ɡɹiz//
Animal fat in a melted or soft state.
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Animal fat in a melted or soft state.
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Any oily or fatty matter.
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Shorn but not yet cleansed wool.
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Inflammation of a horse's heels, also known as scratches or pastern dermatitis.
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argotMoney.
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.
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vieilliSynonym of fat (“work containing much blank, profitable to the compositor”).
Étymologie
From Middle English grece, from Anglo-Norman grece, from Vulgar Latin *grassia, noun derived from Latin crassus (“fat, thick”). Doublet of crass.
verbe
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To put grease or fat on something, especially in order to lubricate.
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familierTo bribe.
the greas'd advocate that grinds the poor
Then you remember we greased him to the tune of five hundred.
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.
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familierTo cause to go easily; to facilitate.
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argotTo perform a landing extraordinarily smoothly.
To my amazement, I greased the landing despite the tricky crosswinds.
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argotTo kill.
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argotTo 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
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obsolèteTo cheat or cozen; to overreach.
You have greased him / For chewing love again in haste
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To affect (a horse) with grease, the disease.
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To depart or slip away.
Formes
- pluriel
- greases
- passé
- greased
- participe passé
- greased
- participe présent
- greasing
- 3ᵉ personne du singulier
- greases
grease · Animal fat in a melted or soft state.
greasy · Having a slippery surface; having a surface covered with…great · Taking much space; large.great-grandfather · The father of one's grandparent.