touch grass
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.27 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To spend time outside, off of the Internet. Used in the imperative to suggest that someone is out of touch with reality, and should gain some real-world perspective.
Derogatory
verb
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see touch, grass.
Example Sentences
- "Maybe their idle and petty chatter wouldn't devastate you if you would touch grass a bit more often."
- "Lifeboat isn't real life. Go outside. Touch grass. Or seaweed; whatever's down there."
- "in the words of a random anon - go touch grass. im done being patient with you and im done being nice to you. is this what you fucking wanted? to lie and slander and generally be a cunt until i snapped?"
- "To an outsider, the meticulous, sometimes combative arguments about, say, moving a button five pixels to the left seem pointless. I beg of thee, please, touch grass! But to many, Wikipedia is sort of a home on the internet. And people want to live somewhere nice."
- "Q: Can't you read?! My sign says to stay off the lawn! A: I didn't touch your grass, pal."