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▪ I. grab-ass, n. N. Amer. slang (orig. U.S. Mil.).
Brit. |ˈgrabas|, U.S. |ˈgræbˌæs|
[‹ grab v. + ass n.2 Compare grab n.2 1b.]
Foolish or disruptive behaviour; horseplay. Freq. in to play grab ass: to engage in horseplay, to fool around. In later use sometimes with sexual connotations (in allusion to literal sense).
1948T. Heggen & J. Logan Mister Roberts i. iii. 58 You've been getting pretty smart playing grab-ass with Roberts here. 1965H. Rhodes Chosen Few 37 No noise, no laughing, no grab ass. 1995Sporting News 27 Feb. 40/1 They were all drinking water, playing grab-ass... By the third practice, I laid down my rules. 2001Toronto Star (Nexis) 14 Jan. He was playing grab-ass in the Oval Office with interns. 2003A. Swofford Jarhead 20 Siek doesn't like our grab-ass, and he yells at us to resume the game.
▪ II. grab-ass, v. N. Amer. slang (orig. Mil.).
Brit. |ˈgrabas|, U.S. |ˈgræbˌæs|
[‹ grab-ass n. Compare earlier to play grab ass at grab-ass n.]
intr. To engage in horseplay; to fool around. Also with around.
1957A. Myrer Big War viii. 108 They didn't know what they were getting into, any of them;..throwing knives at pin-up girls, squabbling, grab-assing around. 1977J. Langone Life at Bottom ixx. 179 Well, man, we had guys grab-assing around with that one, I'll tell you. 1981D. D. Stewart & T. Hackford Officer & Gentleman in M. Mehring Screenplay (1990) x. 236 You grab-ass and joke around but you don't make friends. 2003J. Lethem Fortress of Solitude i. xv. 244 The three grab-ass, swing incompetently from lampposts, talk in private tongues. |