"grasser" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: grassers [plural]
Etymology: grass + -er Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|grass|er}} grass + -er Head templates: {{en-noun}} grasser (plural grassers)
  1. (British, slang) A grass; an informer. Tags: British, slang
    Sense id: en-grasser-en-noun-DTGMBbrq Categories (other): British English
  2. (historical) An extra or temporary worker in a printing-office. Tags: historical
    Sense id: en-grasser-en-noun-Yc5TGnHG
  3. (recreational fishing) A grass carp; a white amur. Categories (lifeform): Cyprinids Synonyms (grass carp): grassie
    Sense id: en-grasser-en-noun-mhqArRB~ Disambiguation of Cyprinids: 9 4 87 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -er Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 12 6 83 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 9 5 86 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -er: 20 7 74 Disambiguation of 'grass carp': 7 1 92
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: grassy Related terms: long-grasser

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for grasser meaning in English (2.9kB)

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