Word.ws English Dictionary

grew a pair

grew a pair is the simple past of grow a pair.

Meaning of grow a pair

Verb

grow a pair (third-person singular simple present grows a pair, present participle growing a pair, simple past grew a pair, past participle grown a pair)

  1. (US, colloquial, idiomatic, vulgar) To be brave; to show some courage, especially in a situation in which one has so far failed to do so.

Questions about grew a pair

What is grew a pair the simple past of?
Grew a pair is the simple past of grow a pair.

Words near grew a pair in the dictionary

  1. grevious
  2. grevière
  3. grevières
  4. grew
  5. grew a custom
  6. grew a pair
  7. grew a set
  8. grew a tail
  9. grew apart
  10. grew away from
  11. grew cold

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: grew a pair (page history and authors); grow a pair (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: “grew a pair.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/grew_a_pair. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.