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单词 grease someone's palm
释义

grease /grēs/

noun
  1. A soft thick animal fat
  2. Oily matter of any kind
  3. The condition of fatness
  4. An inflammation in the heels of a horse, marked by swelling, etc (veterinary medicine)
transitive verb
  1. (in UK sometimes pronounced /grēz/) to smear with grease
  2. To lubricate
  3. To bribe (slang)
  4. To facilitate
ORIGIN: OFr gresse fatness, gras fat, from L crassus

greaseˈless adjective

greaser /grēzˈər or grēsˈər/ noun

  1. A person who greases
  2. A member of a gang of long-haired motorcyclists (slang)
  3. A ship's engineer (slang)
  4. A Mexican or a Spanish American or Mediterranean person (US; offensive sl)
  5. An obsequious person (Aust and NZ informal)
  6. (of an aircraft) a gentle landing

greasˈily adverb

greasˈiness noun

greasˈy adjective

  1. (in UK sometimes /grēzˈi/) of or like grease or oil
  2. Smeared with grease
  3. Having a slippery coating
  4. Fatty
  5. Oily
  6. Obscene
  7. Unctuous or ingratiating
noun (Aust and NZ informal)
  1. A shearer
  2. A camp-cook in the outback
  3. (in pl) fish and chips

greaseˈball noun (US derog sl)

  1. A person of Latin racial origin, esp Mediterranean or Latin American, with dark hair and skin
  2. Someone with oily, slicked-back hair
  3. A loose derogatory term, esp for someone dirty or unkempt

greaseˈband noun (horticulture)

A band of sticky or greasy material put around eg a tree trunk to prevent insects from climbing further up it

grease cup noun

A lubricating device which stores grease and feeds it into a bearing

grease gun noun

A lubricating pump

greaseˈ-heels singular noun (veterinary medicine)

Grease (in horses)

grease monkey noun (slang)

A mechanic

grease paint noun

A tallowy substance used by actors in making up

greaseˈproof adjective

Resistant or impermeable to grease

greaseˈwood noun

A name for various oily American shrubs of the goosefoot family

greasy spoon noun (slang)

A cheap, shabby, often grubby cafe

grease someone's palm see under palm1

grease the wheels (figurative)

To make things go smoothly

like greased lightning

Extremely quickly

palm1 /päm/

noun
  1. The inner surface of the hand between wrist and fingers
  2. The corresponding part of a forefoot, or of a glove
  3. The sole of the foot (rare)
  4. A handbreadth (7.5 or 10cm, ie 3 or 4 inches)
  5. The length of the hand from wrist to fingertip
  6. A sailmaker's instrument used instead of a thimble
  7. A flat expansion, as of an antler, or the inner surface of an anchor fluke
  8. An act of palming
  9. (also palmˈ-play) an old game in which a ball was struck with the palm
transitive verb
  1. To touch or stroke with the palm
  2. To hold in the palm
  3. To take swiftly and unseen and conceal in the palm
  4. To impose, pass off (esp with off, and on or upon)
  5. To bribe
ORIGIN: L palma; cf Gr palamē and OE folm

palmar /palˈmər/ adjective

Relating to the palm

palmate /palˈ/ or palmated adjective

  1. Hand-shaped
  2. Having lobes radiating from one centre (botany)
  3. Webfooted (zoology)

palˈmately adverb

palmatifid /pal-matˈi-fid/ adjective (botany)

Shaped like the hand, with the divisions extending about halfway down

palmāˈtion noun

  1. Palmate formation
  2. A palmate structure or one of its parts or divisions

palmatipartˈite adjective

Palmately divided rather more than halfway

palmatisect /pal-matˈi-sekt/ adjective

Deeply cut in a palmate manner

palmed /pämd/ adjective

  1. Having a palm
  2. Held or concealed in the palm

palmˈful noun

As much as the palm will hold

palmiped /palˈmi-ped/ or palmipede /-pēd/ noun

A webfooted bird

adjective

Webfooted

palmist /pämˈist/ noun

Someone who tells a person's fortune from the lines on his or her palm

palmˈistry noun

palmy or palmie /pämˈi/ noun (Scot)

A stroke of the tawse on the palm

palmˈcorder noun

A small hand-held camcorder

palmˈ-grease or palmˈ-oil noun

A bribe

palmˈtop noun

A small hand-held portable computer (also adjective)

grease someone's palm

To bribe someone

in the palm of one's hand

  1. In one's power
  2. At one's command
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