英和和英

語源

grab +‎ ass

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹæbˌæs/
• ハイフネーション: grab‧ass

名詞

grabass (uncountable)

1. (informal, often used with the verb play) Sexual groping; erotic horseplay.
   • 1976, Thomas Glynn, Temporary Sanity: A Novel, →ISBN, page 66:

     [T]hey wouldn't do any work then, just hang around and drink and play grabass with her and she didn't want that.

   • 1997, Lee K. Abbott, "Chapter One of Wet Places at Noon," New York Times (retrieved 11 Dec 2015):

     Bobby was bear-hugging Sammy Vaughn and then playing grab-ass with Sammy's ex-wife Alice.

   • 2010, Regan Taylor, The Glass Cage, →ISBN, page 81:

     "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. (informal, often used with the verb play) Rowdy behavior; general horseplay or foolery.
   • 1967, Cool Hand Luke, spoken by Carr (Clifton James):

     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.

   • 1977, Philip Caputo, A Rumor of War (2014 Macmillan edition), →ISBN, p. 46 (Google preview):

     "Anything else? Yes, Lieutenant Lemmon?"

     "Yes, sir," Lemmon drawled. "How do I get out of this chicken-shit outfit?"

     "Knock off the grabass, Glen. Okay, listen up. When you brief your people, make it clear that our mission is defensive only."

動詞

grabass (三人称単数 現在形 grabasses, 現在分詞 grabassing, 過去形および過去分詞形 grabassed)

1. (informal) To fool around.
   • 1966, Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49, New York: Bantam Books, published 1976, →ISBN:

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

アナグラム

• gas bars