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grill noun- a person of Mediterranean background AUSTRALIA, 1957
Post-World-War-2 migrants from southern Europe commonly opened businesses selling fried or grilled food. - — Jim Ramsay, Cop It Sweet!, p. 42, 1977
- What would you know? You’re nothing but a bloody grill? — Wordmap (www.abc.net.au/wordmap), 2003
- a motor accident in which an occupant or occupants of the car are burnt US
- — American Speech, p. 269, December 1962: “The language of traffic policemen”
- the bars or mesh of a prison cell US
- — William K. Bentley and James M. Corbett, Prison Slang, p. 7, 1992
- the teeth US
- — Jim Goad, Jim Goad’s Glossary of Northwestern Prison Slang, December 2001
- a decorative tooth cap US
- Rob a jewelry store and tell ’em make me a grill / Had a whole top diamonds and da bottom rows gold / Yo we bout to start an epidemic wit dis one / Y’ll know what dis is so, so def. — Nelly, Grillz, 2005
- He flashed a mouthful of bling set in a platinum grill. — Linden Dalecki, Kid B, p. 168, 2006
- The teeth caps are alternately called grills, fronts, shines, plates, or caps, and these glittering decorative pieces are the latest hip-hop culture trend making its way into the mainstream. — Boston Globe, p. C1, 31 January 2006
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