GREASE
Grease
Grease is a 1971 musical by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey. The musical is named for the 1950s United States working-class youth subculture known as greasers. The musical, set in 1959 at fictional Rydell High School, follows ten working-class teenagers as they navigate the complexities of love. The score attempts to recreate the sounds of early rock and roll. In its record-breaking original Broadway production, Grease was a raunchy, raw, aggressive, vulgar show. Subsequent productions sanitized it and tamed it down. The show tackles such social issues as teenage pregnancy and gang violence; its themes include love, friendship, teenage rebellion, ...The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Grease (musical)
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grease
Noun
- Animal fat in a melted or soft state
- Any oily or fatty matter.
- Shorn but not yet cleansed wool
- Inflammation of a horse's heels, also known as scratches or pastern dermatitis.
Verb
- To put grease or fat on something, especially in order to lubricate.
- To bribe.
- To perform a landing extraordinarily smoothly.
- ''To my amazement, I greased the landing despite the tricky crosswinds.
- To kill, murder.
- ''Fatcats who can't be greased by the mob's money are greased the hard way.
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