Definition of Grease

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Grease

Animal fat, as tallow or lard, especially when in a soft state; oily or unctuous matter of any kind.

An inflammation of a horse's heels, suspending the ordinary greasy secretion of the part, and producing dryness and scurfiness, followed by cracks, ulceration, and fungous excrescences.

To smear, anoint, or daub, with grease or fat; to lubricate; as, to grease the wheels of a wagon.

To bribe; to corrupt with presents.

To cheat or cozen; to overreach.

To affect (a horse) with grease, the disease.

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Grease Quotations

The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.
Josh Billings

Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.
Ambrose Bierce

Grease is the only cure for a hangover.
Cameron Diaz

When it came to football there was a certain age where I realized that my future in football was being a grease spot on the side of some bigger player.
Leigh Steinberg

I can rock out anything. I mean, I can rock out a little 'Time After Time'. I can do a little 'Grease Lightning'. It depends on the mood, but we do go karaoke, my friends and I in Los Angeles, and it's a lot of fun.
Kristen Bell

She was scrubbing furiously at a line of grease spots which led from the stove towards the door to the dining-room. That was where Henry had held the platter tilted as he carried the steak in yesterday. And yet if she had warned him once about that, she had a thousand times!
Dorothy Canfield Fisher

I made my Broadway debut in the revival of Hair and followed it up with the bus and truck tour of Grease.
Peter Gallagher

Kids know me from their Grease DVD, so they instantly respond. You can hear a pin drop when I do my old songs.
Frankie Avalon

I'd always have grease in at least two places, in case the umpires would ask me to wipe one off. I never wanted to be caught out there with anything though, it wouldn't be professional.
Gaylord Perry

Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease.
Anthony Daniels

Grease Translations

grease in Afrikaans is vet
grease in Danish is fedt
grease in Dutch is invetten
grease in Finnish is rasva
grease in French is graisse, gribouiller, graissage
grease in German is abschmieren, Fett, Fett, schmieren, fetten
grease in Italian is grassello, ingrassare, untume, ingrassare
grease in Norwegian is fett
grease in Portuguese is graxa, gordura
grease in Spanish is grasa, engrase, unto, engrasar

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