Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

grease someone's palm

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.53 in modern English

Syllables: grease -some-one's -palm
IPA

25

Scrabble Score

18

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To bribe a person.

Example Sentences

"I was never guilty of disloyalty to King Lewis, but I killed my wife's mother, pardieu!—which the judge seemed to think almost as vile, till I sent a friend to grease his palm with the last sou of my patrimony."
"We arrived at Almaty Airport, and from the moment the customs officer made it obvious in his fractured English that our entrance would be made easier if we greased his palm, we realised that all our Anglo-Saxon assumptions about how societies are run were not very relevant here."

Inflected Forms

greases someone's palm (present, singular) greasing someone's palm (participle, present) greased someone's palm (participle, past) greased someone's palm (past)

Phrases

cross someone's palm grease payment

Frequently Paired Words

cross someone's palm grease payment

Questions

What does grease someone's palm mean?: To bribe a person.

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