noun, verb
noun [U]
1 any thick OILY substance, especially one that is used to make machines run smoothly:
Grease marks can be removed with liquid detergent. * Her hands were covered with oil and grease. * the grease in his hair
seealsoELBOWGREASE
2 animal fat that has been softened by cooking or heating:
plates covered with grease * There was a film of grease on the kitchen window.
verb [VN] to rub grease or fat on sth:
to grease a cake tin / pan
IDIOMS
grease sb's palm (old-fashioned, informal) to give sb money in order to persuade them to do sth dishonest
SYNBRIBE
grease the wheels (AmE) = OILTHEWHEELS
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for grease is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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