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grass
noun- an informer UK, 1932
Rhyming slang for GRASSHOPPER, COPPER - I haven’t got any time for grasses, but if people can’t be barons with out going around punching little geezers up in the air they deserve a capture. — Frank Norman, Bang To Rights, p. 19, 1958
- I’m no fuckin’ grass. Right? — Cath Staincliffe, Trainers, p. 55, 1999
- “There’s an informer on the spur, lads!” he proclaimed, pointing towards the cell where Grady was installing his few intact possessions. “Ssssss,” came the reply in chorus. (An informer in prison is known as a grass from the phrase “snake in the grass”.) — The Guardian, 30 March 2000
- marijuana US, 1943
The term of choice during the 1960s and 1970s. - Don’t nobody come up thataway when he picks up on some good grass. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 213, 1946
- At one time or another I have winked at marijuana (and don’t call it tea or reefers or grass or weed or by any other romantic euphemism); I have never been other than disgusted by heroin and its users. — Metronone, p. 34, September 1951
- But I never blew up a joint in the folks’ apartment the whole time I was on pot -- that’s grass, you know; you know, marijuana. I really never did. — David Hulburd, H is For Heroin, p. 47, 1952
- Their hunger for “grass,” or marijuana, and H was unquenchable; to keep themselves in “junk,” they forged prescription blanks, encouraged robbery, sold their furniture, drove all the way to Mexico for supplies, and borrowed from her parents. — Saturday Review, 21 June 1952
- “Movement,” Solly said, “how’s about stashing a couple ounces for me? This new grass doublebanks me.” — Bernard Wolfe, The Late Risers, p. 84, 1954
- Marijuana has names like weed, grass, tea, Mary Jane, and gage, but usually it is called pot. — New York Times, p. 27, 21 March 1966
- WYATT: No, man – this is grass. GEORGE: You – you mean marijuana? WYATT: Yeah. — Peter Fonda, Easy Rider, p. 121, 1969
- Acid, booze, and ass / Needles, guns, and grass / Lots of laughs, lots of laughs. — Joni Mitchell, Blue, 1971
- Grass gets you through times of no money better than money gets you through times of no grass. — Stephen Gaskin, Amazing Dope Tales, p. 90, 1980
- hair, especially a crew cut AUSTRALIA, 1919
- — Lou Shelly, Hepcats Jive Dictionary, p. 12, 1945
- a woman’s pubic hair US
- — Roger Blake, The American Dictionary of Sexual Terms, p. 91, 1964
- — Maledicta, p. 131, Summer/Winter 1982: “Dyke diction: the language of lesbians”
▶ have more grass than Kew Gardens
used of a person who is known as a regular police informer UK- “You can depend on me, Arthur.” “You? You’ve got more grass than Kew Gardens.” “Me, Arthur? Never. On my mother’s eyesight.” “She’s dead." — Anthony Masters, Minder, p. 167, 1984
▶ out to grass
retired from work; hence no longer in use UK, 1969 An image of old horses put out to grass.- You may have an impeccable body of qualifications, but if the cheekbones fail to come up to scratch, then you’re out on your ear. And if you are beautiful but 30-plus, then you’re out to grass anyway. — New Statesman, 1 May 2000
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