grabass

noun
/ˈɡɹæbˌæs/

Etymology

From grab + ass.

  1. inherited from *h₁órsos
  2. inherited from *arsaz
  3. inherited from *ars
  4. inherited from ærs
  5. inherited from ars
  6. compounded as grabass — “grab + ass

Definitions

  1. Sexual groping

    Sexual groping; erotic horseplay.

    • [T]hey wouldn't do any work then, just hang around and drink and play grabass with her and she didn't want that.
    • Bobby was bear-hugging Sammy Vaughn and then playing grab-ass with Sammy's ex-wife Alice.
    • "I'm thinking a rousing game of grabass is in my future while you load the dishwasher." . . . "So y'all plannin' on grabbing my ass?" "That and a few other tempting body parts."
  2. Rowdy behavior

    Rowdy behavior; general horseplay or foolery.

    • There's no playing grab-ass or fighting in the building. You got a grudge against another man, you fight him Saturday afternoon. Any man playing grab-ass or fighting in the building spends a night in the box.
  3. To fool around.

    • The Paranoids were singing, to the tune of ‘Adeste Fideles’: […] grabassing around, trying to push each other over the side.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for grabass. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA