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单词 grass up
释义

grass up

English

Etymology

From grass (informer).[1]

Verb

grass up

  1. (Britain, slang) To betray by informing on.
    • 1999, Angela Devlin, Bob Turney, Going Straight: After Crime and Punishment →ISBN:
      My sister grassed me up to the caretaker! She thought she was doing me a favour — by grassing me up she was sure he'd let me off.

Synonyms

  • drop a dime, name names, snitch; See also Thesaurus:rat out
  • supergrass

References

  1. The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang →ISBN
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