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grabassing

grabassing is the present participle and gerund 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 grabassing

What is grabassing the present participle and gerund of?
Grabassing is the present participle and gerund of grabass.

Words near grabassing in the dictionary

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

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