Grease

Pronunciation

• UK enPR: grÄ“s, IPA: /É¡riːs/
• Rhymes: -iːs
• Homophones: Greece

• UK enPR: grÄ“s, IPA: /É¡riːs/
• US enPR: grÄ“s, IPA: /É¡riːs/, /É¡riːz/
• Rhymes: -iːs UK, US
• Rhymes: -iːz US

Origin

From Anglo-Norman grece, from Old French graisse, from Latin crassus ("fat, thick").

Full definition of grease

Noun

1. Animal fat in a melted or soft state
2. (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.

Synonyms

• (animal fat) fat, lard

Derived terms

Verb

1. (transitive) To put grease or fat on something, especially in order to lubricate.
2. (transitive, informal) To bribe.
• Drydenthe greased advocate that grinds the poor
• Byron Archibald Dunn, With Lyon in Missouri, Then you remember we greased him to the tune of five hundred.
• Dan Richardson, GOG - an End Time Mystery, 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.
3. (transitive, slang, aviation) To perform a landing extraordinarily smoothly.''To my amazement, I greased the landing despite the tricky crosswinds.
4. (transitive, slang) To kill, murder.Fat cats who can't be greased by the mob's money are greased the hard way.
5. (obsolete) To cheat or cozen; to overreach.
6. To affect (a horse) with grease, the disease.

Synonyms

• (put grease or fat on) lard
• (slang for kill or murder) bump off, hit, whack

Derived terms

Anagrams

• agrees
• eagers
• eagres