grass

  1. Noun.  (countable, uncountable) Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem, wrap around it for a distance, and leave, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.
  2. Noun.  (uncountable) A lawn.
  3. Noun.  (uncountable, slang) Marijuana.
  4. Noun.  (countable, slang) An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities.
  5. Noun.  (uncountable, physics) Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced by random interference.
  6. Noun.  (uncountable, slang) Noise on an A-scope or similar type of radar display.
  7. Verb.  (transitive) To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.).
  8. Verb.  (transitive, or) To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities.

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