the melted or rendered fat of animals, especially when in a soft state.
fatty or oily matter in general; lubricant.
Also called grease wool . wool, as shorn, before being cleansed of the oily matter.
Also called grease-heel[grees-heel]. /ˈgrisˌhil/. Veterinary Pathology. inflammation of a horse's skin in the fetlock region, attended with an oily secretion.
Informal. a bribe.
verb (used with object),greased,greasing.
to put grease on; lubricate: to grease the axle of a car.
to smear or cover with grease.
to cause to occur easily; smooth the way; facilitate.
Informal. to bribe.
Idioms for grease
grease someone's palm. palm1 (def. 19).
Origin of grease
1250–1300; Middle English grese, grece, greice<Anglo-French grece, gresse,Old French craisse (French graisse) <Vulgar Latin *crassia, equivalent to Latin crass(us) fat, thick + -ia noun suffix
OTHER WORDS FROM grease
greaseless,adjectivegrease·less·ness,noungreaseproof,adjectivere·grease,verb (used with object),re·greased,re·greas·ing.
Some of my teammates sat in the nearby parking lot running their bike chains through rags to clean the grease.
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When the pot has cooled, wipe out any remaining grease with a paper towel and burn that.
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Again, this step requires a lot of elbow grease, so bear that in mind.
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Those individuals the doctors could not attend to dressed their wounds with generous amounts of vaseline and axle grease smeared onto their limbs.
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The owners can grease a lot of palms with revenues like that.
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Great care is used in cleaning substances to be plated, all dirt and grease being carefully removed.
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The grease of the fox and the marrow are good for the hardening of sinews.
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The sunburnt face, puckered with a wry wistfulness, was only comic in its incongruous coat of grease.
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The ordinary behaviour is evidently the result of a film of grease, which adheres with great obstinacy.