grass

Meaning

Noun

1. Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.
2. Various plants not in family Poaceae that resemble grasses.
3. A lawn.
4. (slang) Marijuana.
5. (slang) An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities.
6. Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced by random interference.
7. (slang) Noise on an A-scope or similar type of radar display.
8. The season of fresh grass; spring or summer.
9. (obsolete) That which is transitory.
10. Asparagus; "sparrowgrass".
11. The surface of a mine.

Verb

1. To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.).
2. (slang) To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities.
3. To cover with grass or with turf.
4. To feed with grass.
5. To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.
6. To bring to the grass or ground; to land.

Concepts

grass

weed

herb

lawn

pasture

straw

weeds

marijuana

turf

herbs

fodder

hay

pot

Mary Jane

plant

thatch

flower

reeds

ganja

snitch

green goddess

supergrass

herbage

hemp

betray

grass over

dope

gage

locoweed

sess

skunk

forage

vegetables

sward

brush

leaves

informer

cereal

graminoid

denounce

rat

shit

shop

stag

tell on

give away

sens

smoke

eatage

pasturage

sod

grazing

reed

vegetable

herba

blade of grass

fresh grass

stool pigeon

green

bud

cheeba

endo

reefer

cannabis

marihuana

hashish

mary jane

grassland

meadow

worthless blade of grass

meadow grass

kind of rush

glade

graze

herbaceous

herbal

nibble

gramineous plant

glue

paste

starch

wild herb

growth

barley

fodder plant

rush

bush

tree

wild plant

undergrowth

verdure

wad

graminaceous plant

grass family

hash

etc

broom

vine

week

grassy

plants

thatch rushes

down

land

shoot down

shoot-down

fink

stoolie

stoolpigeon

whistle blower

whistle-blower

whistleblower

belt

carol

sing

vocalize

greensward

cascade

cloud

calf

nark

sneak

sneaker

snitcher

squealer

veal

cogongrass

kunai

greenery

leaf

general term

species

informant

young grass

prickly

long knife

etc.

shrub

m.j.

Columbian

Ghana

Indian hemp

Juanita

Kentucky blue

Lucas

Mary

Mary Ann

Meg

Rose Marie

airplane

ashes

baby

bale

bar

bash

block

blonde

blue sage

boo

boom

broccoli

burrito

charge

churus

coli

crazy weed

dagga

dew

ding

ditch

djamba

fir

fine stuff

fu

funk

gange

gangster

gash

gauge

grata

greeter

grefa

greta

grifa

griff

has

homegrown

hooch

kali

kaya

kilter

kind

lima

limbo

loaf

lobo

loco

m.o.

machinery

macon

mota

mother

moto

pat

pin

pod

poke

red cross

red dirt

root

rope

salt and pepper

scissors

seeds

sen

shake

stack

stems

stink weed

thirteen

thumb

torch

wheat

yeh

yerba

magic smoke

doobie

moocah

cochornis

Chicago green

Colorado cocktail

pocket rocket

muggles

love weed

viper's weed

chira

llesca

marley

dona Juana

gauge butt

aunt Mary

African bush

giggle smoke

Columbus black

drag weed

white-haired lady

esra

yellow submarine

jive stick

Pakistani black

lubage

mor a grifa

mooca

bullyon

don Jem

giggle weed

snop

duby

cosa

messorole

dawamesk

Texas tea

frajo

jay smoke

kiff

grass brownies

mooster

mutah

righteous bush

flower tops

gunja

Wacky terbacky

laughing grass

potten bush

killer weed

gunga

pretendo

durog

coliflor tostao

yesco

kgb

mutha

pretendica

sezz

fraho

sasfras

kumba

griffa

Mary weaver

dubbe

laughing weed

bo-bo

hanhich

zambi

pakalolo

sweet Lucy

rasta weed

mohasky

m.u.

Mary Jonas

wacky weed

bammy

queen Ann's lace

modams

canamo

draf weed

splim

Panama gold

Meggie

cheeo

dry high

Acapulco red

baby bhang

gunney

Panama cut

p.r.

smoke Canada

diambista

butter flower

African black

yesca

dinkie dow

manhattan silver

joy smoke

lakbay diva

vipe

canappa

Mary and Johnny

cavite all star

Indian boy

mootie

crying weed

cannabis tea

takkouri

rainy day woman

o.j.

burnie

muggie

Mexican red

griffo

moota

mootos

blowing smoke

siddi

lamb's bread

good giggles

bobo bush

black bart

black gunion

funny staff

railroad weed

bambalacha

ghanja

tex-mex

gungun

taima

doradilla

Mary Warner

yen pop

Texas pot

dona Juanita

chillums

Canadian black

duros

sugar weed

griefo

santa Marta

gold star

weed tea

sinse

light stuff

jolly green

carmabis

bear grass

graminaceous plants

ganj

insangu

mootah

yarndie

wacky baccy

tares

rushes

lemon

wallaby

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɡɹɑːs/

Etymology

From Middle English gras, from Old English græs, from Proto-Germanic *grasą (“grass”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁- (“to grow”).
cognates
Cognate with Scots girs, gers, gress (“grass”), North Frisian gäärs, geers (“grass”), Saterland Frisian Gäärs (“grass”), West Frisian gers (“grass”), Low German Gras (“grass”), Dutch gras (“grass, turf, pasture”), German Gras (“grass, weed”), Danish græs (“grass”), Swedish gräs (“grass”), Norwegian Bokmål gress (“grass”), Faroese, Icelandic and Norwegian Nynorsk gras (“grass”), Latin herba (“plant, weed, grass”), Albanian grath (“grass blade, spike”). Related to grow, green.
The "informer" sense is probably a shortening of grasshopper (“police officer, informant”), rhyming slang for copper (“police officer”) or shopper (“informant”); the exact sequence of derivation is unclear.