grease
Animal fat in a melted or soft state.
Other meanings
Any oily or fatty matter.
Shorn but not yet cleansed wool.
A kind of
- oil
Kinds of grease
- axle grease
Related words
- apple grease
- bear's grease
- begrease
- boot-grease
- cow grease
- cow's grease
- degrease
- dielectric grease
- dirty grease
- golden grease
- goose grease
- greaseball
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "crassus" (fat, thick).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “grease” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.