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grease
verb- to shoot or kill US, 1964
Vietnam war usage. - I ain’t killing MacGreever just to grease some fucking Lieutenant Colonel. — Ronald J. Glasser, 365 Days, p. 160, 1971
- He was runnin’ around outside yellin’ “Troi Oi! Troi Oi! (Oh God)” and then Crowe greased him and he didn’t do no more yellin. — Philip Caputo, A Rumor of War, p. 302, 1977
- You’ll come out now or we grease you on the spot. — Alfred Coppel, The Apocalypse Brigade, p. 245, 1981
- What would I do if you got greased? I’d be a rifleman again. — Nelson DeMille, Word of Honor, p. 129, 1985
- They greased half the 4th platoon and Lieutenant Stennett’s brand-new radioman, and we greased so many of them it wasn’t even funny. — Larry Heinemann, Paco’s Story, p. 7, 1986
- The A-gunner’s brains blew all over him. His squad was getting greased. — John Skipp and Craig Spector, The Scream, p. 99, 1988
- I’m gonna grease somebody in here I swear to God! — Airheads, 1994
- to bribe or otherwise favourably induce others to act as desired UK, 1528
- [T]hey needed fifty dollars each to grease the right guy. — Babs Gonzales, I Paid My Dues, pp. 73–84, 1967
- Her old man is doing a lot of greasing in the district. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Pimp:, p. 253, 1969
- [J]udges who could be greased and judges who could not. — Charles Whited, Chiodo, p. 243, 1973
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 59, 1996
- to eat US
- — Inez Cordosa Freeman, The Joint, p. 502, 1984
- to use nitroglycerin to break into a safe US
- — Vincent J. Monteleone, Criminal Slang, p. 106, 1949
- to barely pass a course in school or college US
- — Time Magazine, p. 46, 24 August 1959
- to perform a favour in return for a bribe US
- It isn’t as hard as it might seem, because one of the guards will grease for twenty-five bucks. — James Blake, The Joint, p. 14, 25 February 1951
- to have sex US
- Keith and I went through ninety thousand trips about how I can’t grease him because of Michael. — Pamela Des Barres, I’m With the Band, p. 259, 1988
▶ grease heel
to run away quickly TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, 1939- — Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad and Tobago, 2003
▶ grease someone’s palm
to persuade by bribery UK, 1807- If you grease his palm, he’ll sit you down by the mock waterfall and tell you his life story. — Josh Alan Friedman, Tales of Times Square, p. 58, 1986
- [A]n informer called Joe Bloggs whose palm needed to be greased[.] — Duncan MacLaughlin, The Filth, p. 115, 2002
▶ grease the skids
to facilitate something, especially by extra legal means US- If you need me to grease the skids obtaining the various licenses and permits, all you got to do is say the word. — Robert Campbell, Nibbled to Death by Ducks, p. 275, 1989
▶ grease the tracks
to be hit by a train US- — Ramon Adams, The Language of the Railroader, p. 71, 1977
▶ grease the weasel
to have sex (from the male perspective) US- — Chris Lewis, The Dictionary of Playground Slang, p. 105, 2003
▶ grease your chops
to eat US- [T]here wasn’t a gas-meter between them all, and they couldn’t remember when they’d greased their chops last. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 177, 1946
- — Paul Glover, Words from the House of the Dead, 1974
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