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Grass

[grahs; Ger. grahs]
–noun
Gün⋅ter (Wil⋅helm) [goon-ter wil-helm; Ger. gyn-tuhr vil-helm] , born 1927, German novelist, poet, and playwright.
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Grass   (gräs)   
German writer whose novels, notably The Tin Drum (1959) and Dog Years (1963), concern the political and social climate of Germany during and after World War II. He won the 1999 Nobel Prize for literature.
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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]
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: grass
Pronunciation: 'gras
Function: noun
: MARIJUANA
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Science Dictionary
grass   (grās)  Pronunciation Key 
Any of a large family (Gramineae or Poaceae) of monocotyledonous plants having narrow leaves, hollow stems, and clusters of very small, usually wind-pollinated flowers. Grasses include many varieties of plants grown for food, fodder, and ground cover. Wheat, maize, sugar cane, and bamboo are grasses. See more at leaf.
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