Word.ws English Dictionary

greased someone's palm

greased someone's palm is the simple past and past participle of grease someone's palm.

Meaning of grease someone's palm

Verb

grease someone's palm (third-person singular simple present greases someone's palm, present participle greasing someone's palm, simple past and past participle greased someone's palm)

  1. (idiomatic) To bribe a person.
    • I was never guilty of disloyalty to King Lewis, but I killed my wife's mother, pardieu!—which the judge seemed to think almost as vile, till I sent a friend to grease his palm with the last sou of my patrimony.1891, Arthur Quiller-Couch, chapter 11, in The Blue Pavilions

Questions about greased someone's palm

What is greased someone's palm the simple past and past participle of?
Greased someone's palm is the simple past and past participle of grease someone's palm.

Words near greased someone's palm in the dictionary

  1. greased it on
  2. greased landing
  3. greased landings
  4. greased lightning
  5. greased one's gills
  6. greased someone's palm
  7. greased the skids
  8. greased the wheels
  9. greased up
  10. greasegrass
  11. greasehead

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: greased someone's palm (page history and authors); grease someone's palm (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “greased someone's palm.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/greased_someone%27s_palm. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.