transcription, транскрипция: [ grɑ:s, græs ]
( grasses, grassing, grassed)
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 grass around the tent...
The lawn contained a mixture of grasses.
N-MASS
2.
If you talk about the grass , you are referring to an area of ground that is covered with grass, for example in your garden.
I’m going to cut the grass.
N-SING : usu the N
3.
Grass is the same as marijuana . ( INFORMAL )
N-UNCOUNT
4.
If you say that one person grasses 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 grass on the members of his own gang...
He was repeatedly attacked by other inmates, who accused him of grassing.
= inform
VERB : V on n , V [ disapproval ]
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Grass up means the same as grass .
How many of them are going to grass up their own kids to the police?
PHRASAL VERB : V P n (not pron) , also V n P
5.
A grass 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 grass 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 grass was greener elsewhere.
PHRASE : V inflects