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grabassed

grabassed is the simple past and past participle of grabass.

Meaning of grabass

Verb

grabass (third-person singular simple present grabasses, present participle grabassing, simple past and past participle grabassed)

  1. (informal) To 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

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Questions about grabassed

What is grabassed the simple past and past participle of?
Grabassed is the simple past and past participle of grabass.

Words near grabassed in the dictionary

  1. grab-bag
  2. grab-bags
  3. grabable
  4. Grabar
  5. grabass
  6. grabassed
  7. grabasses
  8. grabassing
  9. Grabau
  10. Grabaus
  11. grabba

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