grease
UK/ɡɹiːs//ɡɹis/
grease noun: animal fat in a melted or soft state.
Noun
grease (countable and uncountable, plural greases)
- Animal fat in a melted or soft state.
- Any oily or fatty matter.
- Shorn but not yet cleansed wool.
- Inflammation of a horse's heels, also known as scratches or pastern dermatitis.
- Money.
- 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
- Synonym of fat (“work containing much blank, profitable to the compositor”).
- Synonyms:
- fat
Verb
grease (third-person singular simple present greases, present participle greasing, simple past and past participle greased)
- To put grease or fat on something, especially in order to lubricate.
- Synonyms:
- lard
- To bribe.
- the greas'd advocate that grinds the poor1693, 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. […]...
- Then you remember we greased him to the tune of five hundred.2008, Byron Archibald Dunn, With Lyon in Missouri
- To cause to go easily; to facilitate.
- To perform a landing extraordinarily smoothly.
- To my amazement, I greased the landing despite the tricky crosswinds.
- To kill.
- Synonyms:
- wax, whack, bump off, hit, annihilate, bag, baptize, bereave of life, blight, bring down
- To 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 bitty2022 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, have intimate relations, have marital relations
- I’m with a girl, call me Rick, I get my crank on
- To cheat or cozen; to overreach.
- You have greased him / For chewing love again in haste1616–1619 (first performance), John Fletcher, “The Mad Lover”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify...
- To affect (a horse) with grease, the disease.
- To depart or slip away.
grease meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Telugu
grease in Hindi
- animal fat
- चरबी carbī
- oily or fatty matter
- ग्रीस grīs, ग्रीज grīj, ग्रीज़ grīz
grease in Tamil
- animal fat
- கொழுப்பு koḻuppu
- oily or fatty matter
- பிசுக்கு picukku
grease in Urdu
- animal fat
- چربی carbī
grease in Telugu
- animal fat
- కందెన kandena
More languagesFewer languages
- grease in Malayalam
- കൊഴുപ്പ് koḻuppŭ
- grease in Kannada
- ಜಿಡ್ಡು, ಹೆರೆ, ಕೀಲ್ಬೆಣ್ಣೆ, ಜಿಗಟು
- grease in Punjabi
- تھندا thindā
- grease in Odia
- ଗ୍ରୀସ୍ gris
- grease in Tagalog
- grasa, grasahan
- grease in Arabic
- شَحْم šaḥm
- grease in Malay
- minyak, gris, lemak
- grease in Indonesian
- lemak, jelantah
- grease in Persian
- گریس geris
- grease in Thai
- มัน man, จาระบี jaa-rá-bii
- grease in Vietnamese
- mỡ
Examples of grease in a sentence
- Aged and degraded oil and grease can really gum up the works.
- She lazily scrubbed the pot, but without some real elbow grease it wasn't going to get clean.
- The engine had self-sealing gaskets to keep the grease in, just tighten the bolts.
Synonyms of grease
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Forms of grease
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | greases |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | greases |
| present participle | greasing |
| past participle | greased |
| past | greased |
Origin of grease
From Middle English grece, from Anglo-Norman grece, from Vulgar Latin *crassia, noun derived from Latin crassus (“fat, thick”). Doublet of crass.
Words formed from grease
- amber grease
- amber-grease
- apple grease
- bacon grease
- bear's grease
- begrease
- boot-grease
- cow grease
- cow's grease
- dielectric grease
- dirty grease
- elbow grease
- elbow-grease
- golden grease
- goose grease
- greaseball
- greaseband
- greaseboard
- greasebomb
- grease-box
- grease boy
- grease bug
- greaseburger
- grease bush
- grease fitting
- greasegrass
- grease gun
- grease-gun
- greasehead
- greaseless
- greaselike
- grease money
- grease monkey
- grease-monkey
- grease moth
- greasen
- grease nipple
- greasepaint
- grease-paint
- grease payment
- grease pencil
- grease pit
- grease pot
- greaseproof
- grease spot
- grease the skids
- grease up
- greasewood
- greasiness
- greasy
- hart of grease
- like grease through a goose
- more grease to your elbow
- relative bearing grease
- silicone grease
- skunk grease
- stew in one's own grease
- thermal grease
- the squeaky wheel gets the grease
- ungrease
Phrases with grease
Words that rhyme with grease
Questions about grease
- What does grease mean?
- Grease means animal fat in a melted or soft state.
- What is grease in Hindi?
- Grease in Hindi is चरबी (carbī), ग्रीस (grīs), ग्रीज (grīj). See Grease meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is grease?
- Grease can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce grease?
- Grease is pronounced /ɡɹis/ (US).
- What is the plural of grease?
- The plural of grease is greases.
Words near grease in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: grease (page history and authors); കൊഴുപ്പ് (Malayalam) (page history and authors); grease (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); تھندا (Punjabi) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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