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verb - transitive

• to prepare a person to take on new responsibilities.

  Management is grooming him to be the new director.

  Last edited on Mar 29 2013. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Mar 29 2013.

adjective

• generally positive: interesting, fun, cool, etc.

                                                                                                                         
  
  Citation from "The Interpreter", The New Yorker, John Colapinto, April 16 2007 censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
  
  Citation from Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002 film) censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.

  Last edited on May 20 2011. Submitted by Alan d. from Ottawa, ON, Canada on May 11 2002.

adjective

• "cool". From the late 1960s - 1970s.

  That car is gross.

  Person A: I pulled a huge wheelie on my bike.
  
  Person B: Gross, man.

  Last edited on Apr 17 2013. Submitted by John from Chicago, IL, USA on Dec 08 2006.

notes

• "gross" also has several non-slang meanings.

  Last edited on Mar 22 2010. Submitted by Elsie on Mar 22 2010.

adjective

• gross. From "grotesque".

  Last edited on Apr 21 2010. Submitted by blu3c1nn1m0n from Louisville, KY, USA on Apr 21 2010.

• Cheap, fifth-rate, nasty, unpleasant.

  It was a really grotty little convenience store.

  Last edited on May 11 2002. Submitted by Alan P. from Ottawa, ON, Canada on May 11 2002.

adjective

• extremely distasteful, low, twisted, monstrous. from the word 'grotesque'. use by George Harrison in the Beatles movie "A Hard Day's Night."

  That pub crawl in 1998 was as grotty as anything I've ever done.

  Last edited on May 29 2008. Submitted by Harold Z. from Pleasanton, CA, USA on May 29 2008.