Grass

Quick meaning: Grass is a noun meaning (countable) Any of the various plants that are not in the family Poaceae that resemble grasses.

Meaning

(countable) Any of the various plants that are not in the family Poaceae that resemble grasses.

More Meanings

1. (uncountable) A lawn.
2. (uncountable) The outside world, especially in the phrase "touch grass".
3. (uncountable, slang) Marijuana.
4. (countable, British, slang) An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities.
5. (uncountable, physics) Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced by random interference.
6. (uncountable, slang) Noise on an A-scope or similar type of radar display.
7. (countable, uncountable) Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.

Example Sentences

What just happened must remain secret. Don't be a grass.

Jojo left his home in Tucson, Arizona / For some California grass

Another claimed a £10,000 bounty was put on his head as he was rumoured to be a “grass”.

The cicale above in the lime, / And the lizards below in the grass, / Were as silent as ever old Tmolus was, / Listening to my sweet pipings.

Word Forms

• grasses
• grassing
• grassed

Synonyms for grass

Depending on context, synonyms include bhang, benj, boo, broccoli, bud, buddha.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include peach, weed, cannabis, marijuana, ganja, marihuana.

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