"grease one's gills" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "greases one's gills",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "greasing one's gills",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "greased one's gills",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "greased one's gills",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
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      "expansion": "grease one's gills (third-person singular simple present greases one's gills, present participle greasing one's gills, simple past and past participle greased one's gills)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1763, Robert Lloyd, The St. James's Magazine, volume 2, page 188:",
          "text": "He'll give a guinea at the least,\n To grease his gills at city feast:\n But tho' to belly he's so kind,\n Yet not one souse to treat his mind.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022, M. Laszlo, The Phantom Glare of Day:",
          "text": "I know how to grease my gills, I do. And I've got me a good recipe for kidney pie.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To eat a hearty meal."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "eat",
          "eat"
        ],
        [
          "hearty",
          "hearty"
        ],
        [
          "meal",
          "meal"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang) To eat a hearty meal."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "grease one's gills"
}

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    {
      "form": "greases one's gills",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "greasing one's gills",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "greased one's gills",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "greased one's gills",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1763, Robert Lloyd, The St. James's Magazine, volume 2, page 188:",
          "text": "He'll give a guinea at the least,\n To grease his gills at city feast:\n But tho' to belly he's so kind,\n Yet not one souse to treat his mind.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022, M. Laszlo, The Phantom Glare of Day:",
          "text": "I know how to grease my gills, I do. And I've got me a good recipe for kidney pie.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To eat a hearty meal."
      ],
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          "hearty",
          "hearty"
        ],
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          "meal",
          "meal"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang) To eat a hearty meal."
      ],
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        "slang"
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  "word": "grease one's gills"
}