Definition of GRASS

grass

Plural: grasses

Noun

  • narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay
  • German writer of novels and poetry and plays (born 1927)
  • a police informer who implicates many people
  • bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle
  • street names for marijuana
  • Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.
  • Various plants not in family Poaceae that resemble grasses.
  • A lawn.
  • The outside world, especially in the phrase "touch grass".
  • Marijuana.
  • An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities.
  • Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced by random interference.
  • Noise on an A-scope or similar type of radar display.
  • The season of fresh grass; spring or summer.
  • That which is transitory.
  • Asparagus; "sparrowgrass".
  • The surface of a mine.

Verb

Verb Forms: grassed, grassing, grasses

  • To cover or plant with grass.
  • shoot down, of birds
  • cover with grass
    • "The owners decided to grass their property"
  • spread out clothes on the grass to let it dry and bleach
  • cover with grass
  • feed with grass
  • give away information about somebody
  • To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.).
  • To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities.
  • To cover with grass or with turf.
  • To feed with grass.
  • To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.
  • To bring to the grass or ground; to land.

Examples

  • He tried to grass over his weak play with a long, impressive, but low-scoring word.
  • What just happened must remain secret. Don't be a grass.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English gras, from Old English græs, from Proto-Germanic *grasą (“grass”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁- (“to grow”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots girs, gers, gress (“grass”), North Frisian gäärs, geers (“grass”), Saterland Frisian Gäärs (“grass”), West Frisian gers (“grass”), Low German Gras (“grass”), Dutch gras (“grass, turf, pasture”), German Gras (“grass, weed”), Danish græs (“grass”), Swedish gräs (“grass”), Norwegian Bokmål gress (“grass”), Faroese, Icelandic and Norwegian Nynorsk gras (“grass”), Latin herba (“plant, weed, grass”), Albanian grath (“grass blade, spike”). Related to grow, green.
The "informer" sense is probably a shortening of grasshopper (“police officer, informant”), rhyming slang for copper (“police officer”) or shopper (“informant”); the exact sequence of derivation is unclear.

Synonyms

betray, denounce, dope, eatage, forage, gage, give away, grass over, green goddess, Gunter Grass, Gunter Wilhelm Grass, locoweed, Mary Jane, pasturage, pasture, pot, rat, sens, sess, shit, shop, skunk, smoke, snitch, stag, supergrass, tell on, weed, CI, MJ, Mary Joanna, Texas tea, abaddon, accuser, beefer, benj, bewray, bewrayer, bhang, bigmouth, blabber, blabtale, blabtongue, blow the whistle, boo, breakup, broccoli, bud, buddha, canary, cannabis, cheeba, choof, clepe, daccha, dank, devil's lettuce, dime, djamba, dob, doobage, drop a dime, drop a dime on someone, endo, ephemera, finger, fink, fizgig, flatten, floor, ganj, ganja, gossip, grass, grass on, grass up, green, greenery, hash, hashish, hemp, herb, inform, inform on, informant, informer, jurat, knock down, knock out, knock over, lay low, lay out, leak, lolly up, marihoochie, marijuana, method, mezz, mole, muggle, mull, name names, narc, nark, nonce, outer, peach, peacher, puff, quisling, rat on, rat out, ratfink, reefer, roll on, rooster, sensimilla, sensimillia, sing, sneak, snitch up, snout, spring, springtime, squeak, squeal, squealer, state's evidence, stooge, stool pigeon, stoolie, strike down, sweetleaf, sycophant, tattle, tattler, tattletale, tea, tell, tell all, tell tales, telltale, telltale tit, tip off, tout, trees, turn in, twig, wacky tobaccy, whistleblower, yarndie, zaza, zombie

Scrabble Score: 6

grass: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
grass: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
grass: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 7

grass: valid Words With Friends Word