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greaze

greaze noun: offensive and abusive language; contumely. Also the obsolete spelling of grease.

Noun

greaze

  1. (Multicultural-London-English, slang, uncountable) Offensive and abusive language; contumely.
    • Don't talk greaze to me.
    • Yeah, I spit greaze and I do not care2011 April 3, “Normal”, in Blue Battlefield, performed by Merky ACE
  2. (Multicultural-London-English, slang, uncountable) Excellence.
    • Life for my bruddas is deep / Long as they all on they feet / Long as they pockets is greaze (greaze!)2017 March 18, “KMT”, in More Life, performed by Drake
    • You know the steeze, super greaze2019 May 9, “Greaze Mode”, in Ignorance Is Bliss, performed by Skepta ft. Nafe Smallz
  3. (countable) A tradition of Westminster School in which a large pancake is tossed and the pupils scramble to claim the largest piece.
    • In the middle of the fun Rutherford reappeared on the scene, and the impromptu Greaze came to an abrupt end. The culprits' names were taken, and the Head Master departed, […]1938, John Dudley Carleton, Westminster (page 66)

Also used as

greaze is also the obsolete spelling of grease.

Examples of greaze in a sentence

  • How could a man with a uni degree / Be bussing up mic and chatting this greaze?2015 May 4, “Man Don't Care”performed by Jme:
  • I hustle, I flex, the world is mine / So please believe, allow the greaze / These niggas disease, don't speak, we squeeze2018 June 26, “Praise the Lord (Da Shine)”, in Testing, performed by ASAP Rocky:
  • Do your family back it, mine'll casually dash you in the boot / So don't be chatting greaze to me or this will happen to / You, you and you2019 October 31, “Family”, in Mic Righteous: I Am Reckless, performed by Mic Reckless:
  • But they were and Bloogz talked greaze, he didn't show man the slightest bit of respect, so Creeper had to do suttin.2020, Gabriel Krauze, Who They Was, London: 4th Estate, →ISBN, page 15:

Forms of greaze

third-person singular presentgreazes
present participlegreazing
past participlegreazed
pastgreazed

Questions about greaze

What does greaze mean?
Greaze means offensive and abusive language; contumely.
How do you use greaze in a sentence?
How could a man with a uni degree / Be bussing up mic and chatting this greaze?
What part of speech is greaze?
Greaze is a noun.

Words near greaze in the dictionary

  1. greave
  2. greaved
  3. greaves
  4. Greaveses
  5. greaving
  6. greaze
  7. greazed
  8. greazes
  9. greazing
  10. Greb
  11. grebe

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