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grabasses

grabasses is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 grabasses

What is grabasses the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Grabasses is the third-person singular simple present indicative of grabass.

Words near grabasses in the dictionary

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

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