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grassward

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grass

  [gras, grahs]
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–noun
1. any plant of the family Gramineae, having jointed stems, sheathing leaves, and seedlike grains. Compare grass family.
2. such plants collectively, as when cultivated in lawns or used as pasture for grazing animals or cut and dried as hay.
3. the grass-covered ground.
4. pasture: Half the farm is grass.
5. Slang. marijuana.
6. grasses, stalks or sprays of grass: filled with dried grasses.
7. the season of the new growth of grass.
–verb (used with object)
8. to cover with grass or turf.
9. to feed with growing grass; pasture.
10. to lay (something) on the grass, as for the purpose of bleaching.
–verb (used without object)
11. to feed on growing grass; graze.
12. to produce grass; become covered with grass.
—Idioms
13. go to grass, to retire from one's occupation or profession: Many executives lack a sense of purpose after they have gone to grass.
14. let the grass grow under one's feet, to delay action, progress, etc.; become slack in one's efforts.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME gras, OE græs; c. D, G, ON, Goth gras; akin to grow, green

Related forms:
grassless, adjective
grasslike, adjective
grassward, grasswards, adverb, adjective
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Slang Dictionary
grass

  1. n.
    marijuana. (Drugs and now widely known.) : These kids manage to find this grass somewhere.
  2. n.
    lettuce; salad greens. (See also rabbit food.) : I could use a little more grass in my diet.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

grass 
O.E. græs, gærs "herb, plant, grass," from P.Gmc. grasan (cf. O.N., Ger., Goth. gras), from PIE *ghros- "young shoot, sprout," from base *gro-/*gre- "that which grows" (cf. L. gramen "grass"); related to grow and green. Sense of "marijuana" is first recorded 1938, Amer.Eng. Grasshopper is O.E. gærshoppa (cf. M.Swed. gräshoppare, Ger. gräshupfer); as a term of reproach, from Eccl. xii.5. Grass widow (1528) was originally "discarded mistress" (cf. Ger. Strohwitwe, lit. "straw-widow"), probably in allusion to casual bedding. Sense of "married woman whose husband is absent" is from 1846.
"[G]rasse wydowes ... be yet as seuerall as a barbours chayre and neuer take but one at onys." [More, 1528]
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: grass
Pronunciation: 'gras
Function: noun
: MARIJUANA
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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