grease

plural greases

1. countableuncountableAnimal fat in a melted or soft state.

   Synonyms: fat, lard

2. broadlycountableuncountableAny oily or fatty matter.
3. countableuncountableShorn but not yet cleansed wool.
4. countableuncountableInflammation of a horse's heels, also known as scratches or pastern dermatitis.
5. countableslanguncountableMoney.

   Some of the people I talked to said it could be done—but it would cost big money. More grease than I’d ever dreamed of.

   1982, Stephen King, Survivor Type

6. countabledatedslanguncountablemediaSynonym of fat (“work containing much blank, profitable to the compositor”).

   Synonyms: fat

present singular third person greases · participle present greasing · participle past greased · past greased

1. transitiveTo put grease or fat on something, especially in order to lubricate.

   Synonyms: lard

2. informaltransitiveTo bribe.

   the greas'd advocate that grinds the poor

   1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Third Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC

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   Then you remember we greased him to the tune of five hundred.

   2008, Byron Archibald Dunn, With Lyon in Missouri

   His employee status didn't entitle him to one, but Magdy on reception would slip him a key if Sabr greased him with a fifty.

   2009, Dan Richardson, GOG - an End Time Mystery

3. informaltransitiveTo cause to go easily; to facilitate.
4. slangtransitiveaeronauticsTo perform a landing extraordinarily smoothly.

   To my amazement, I greased the landing despite the tricky crosswinds.

5. slangtransitiveTo kill.

   Synonyms: wax, whack, bump off, hit, annihilate, bag, baptize, bereave of life

6. slangtransitiveTo have sexual intercourse with.

   I’m with a girl, call me Rick, I get my crank on Choppa knock him out his briefs, ayy free willy He a blood, why the fuck I’m greasin his bitty

   2022 November 22, BLP Kosher, “Chopping Block” (track 3, 1:31 from the start), in BLP Kosher and The Magic Dreidel

   Synonyms: approach, cohabit, common, company, copulate, couple, engage in sex, exchange flesh

7. obsoleteTo cheat or cozen; to overreach.

   You have greased him / For chewing love again in haste

   1616–1619 (first performance), John Fletcher, “The Mad Lover”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)

8. To affect (a horse) with grease, the disease.
9. To depart or slip away.