grabass

alternative grab ass · alternative grab-ass

1. informaloftenuncountableSexual groping; erotic horseplay.

   Bobby was bear-hugging Sammy Vaughn and then playing grab-ass with Sammy's ex-wife Alice.

   1997, Lee K. Abbott, “Chapter One of Wet Places at Noon”, in New York Times, retrieved 11 Dec 2015

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   [T]hey wouldn't do any work then, just hang around and drink and play grabass with her and she didn't want that.

   1976, Thomas Glynn, Temporary Sanity: A Novel, →ISBN, page 66

   "I'm thinking a rousing game of grabass is in my future while you load the dishwasher." . . . "So y'all plannin' on grabbing my ass?" "That and a few other tempting body parts."

   2010, Regan Taylor, The Glass Cage, →ISBN, page 81

2. informaloftenuncountableRowdy behavior; general horseplay or foolery.

   There's no playing grab-ass or fighting in the building. You got a grudge against another man, you fight him Saturday afternoon. Any man playing grab-ass or fighting in the building spends a night in the box.

   1967, Cool Hand Luke, spoken by Carr (Clifton James)

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   "Anything else? Yes, Lieutenant Lemmon?" "Yes, sir," Lemmon drawled. "How do I get out of this chicken-shit outfit?" "Knock off the grabass, Glen. Okay, listen up. When you brief your people, make it clear that our mission is defensive only."

   1977, Philip Caputo, A Rumor of War (2014 Macmillan edition), p. 46 (Google preview)

present singular third person grabasses · participle present grabassing · participle past grabassed · past grabassed · alternative grab ass · alternative grab-ass

1. informalTo fool around.

   The Paranoids were singing, to the tune of ‘Adeste Fideles’: […] grabassing around, trying to push each other over the side.

   1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC