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Noun: grass  grăs
  1. Narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay
     
  2. [Brit] A police informer who implicates many people
    - supergrass [Brit]
     
  3. Bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle
    - eatage [dialect], forage, pasture, pasturage
     
  4. Street names for marijuana
    - pot, green goddess, dope, weed, gage, sess, sens, smoke, skunk, locoweed [N. Amer], Mary Jane
     
  5. [Brit] Someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police
    - fink [N. Amer], snitch, snitcher, stoolpigeon, stool pigeon, stoolie [N. Amer], sneak, sneaker, canary [N. Amer]
     
  6. [Brit] Someone who reports another person's wrongdoings to someone in authority
    - telltale [Brit], snitch
Verb: grass  grăs
  1. Shoot down, of birds
     
  2. Cover with grass
    "The owners decided to grass their property"
     
  3. Spread out clothes on the grass to let it dry and bleach
     
  4. Cover with grass
    - grass over
     
  5. Feed with grass
     
  6. Give away information about somebody
    - denounce, tell on, betray, give away, rat, shop, snitch, stag
Noun: Grass
  1. German writer of novels and poetry and plays (born 1927)
    - Gunter Grass, Gunter Wilhelm Grass

Derived forms: grassing, grassed, grasses

See also: grassy

Type of: author, betrayer, blabber, cannabis, cover, crop, dagga [S.Africa], fodder, ganja, graminaceous plant, gramineous plant, graze, hit, inform, informer, marihuana, marijuana, open, pasture, pip, rat, shoot, spread, spread out, spread over, squealer, unfold, writer

Encyclopedia: Grass