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grab-ass

grab-ass is the alternative form of grabass.

Meaning of grabass

Noun

grabass (uncountable)

  1. (informal, often) Sexual groping; erotic horseplay.
    • [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
  2. (informal, often) Rowdy 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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Questions about grab-ass

What is grab-ass the alternative form of?
Grab-ass is the alternative form of grabass.

Words near grab-ass in the dictionary

  1. grab some Zs
  2. grab the bull by the horns
  3. grab the headlines
  4. grab the popcorn
  5. grab-and-go
  6. grab-ass
  7. grab-bag
  8. grab-bags
  9. grabable
  10. Grabar
  11. grabass

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