grasses Definition

grass
noun grasses

1. Any of a family of flowering plants (eg cereals, bamboos, etc) that typically have long narrow leaves with parallel veins, a jointed upright hollow stem and flowers (with no petals) borne alternately on both sides of an axis.
2. An area planted with or growing such plants, eg a lawn or meadow.
3. Lawn or pasture.
4. slang
Marijuana.
5. slang
Someone who betrays someone else, especially to the police.

verb grassed, grassing

1. To plant something with grass or turf.
2. To feed (animals) with grass; to provide pasture for them.
intr
3. slang
To inform on them, especially to the police.
Form: grass on someone (often)
Form: grass someone up

Idiom: let the grass grow under one's feet

To delay or waste time.

Idiom: put (an animal or a person) out to grass

To give a life of grazing to (eg an old racehorse).

colloq
To put (eg a worker) into retirement.

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon gærs, græs.