(~es, ~ing, ~ed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
Grass is a very common plant consisting of large numbers of thin, spiky, green leaves that cover the surface of the ground.
Small things stirred in the ~ around the tent...
The lawn contained a mixture of ~es.
N-MASS
2.
If you talk about the ~, you are referring to an area of ground that is covered with ~, for example in your garden.
I’m going to cut the ~.
N-SING: usu the N
3.
Grass is the same as marijuana . (INFORMAL)
N-UNCOUNT
4.
If you say that one person ~es on another, the first person tells the police or other authorities about something criminal or wrong which the second person has done. (BRIT INFORMAL)
His wife wants him to ~ on the members of his own gang...
He was repeatedly attacked by other inmates, who accused him of ~ing.
= inform
VERB: V on n, V disapproval
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Grass up means the same as ~ .
How many of them are going to ~ up their own kids to the police?
PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), also V n P
5.
A ~ is someone who tells the police or other authorities about criminal activities that they know about. (BRIT INFORMAL)
= informer
N-COUNT disapproval
6.
If you say the ~ is greener somewhere else, you mean that other people’s situations always seem better or more attractive than your own, but may not really be so.
He was very happy with us but wanted to see if the ~ was greener elsewhere.
PHRASE: V inflects