grossa.html - {v.}, {slang} To commit a vulgar act; to repel someone by saying a disgusting or vulgar thing. * /You are going to gross out people if you continue talking like that./

grossa.html - {n.}, {slang}, {avoidable} A verbal contest between teen-agers in which the object of the game is to see who can be more disgusting or vulgar than anybody else. * /When Jim got home he found his two teen-age sons engaged in a gross-out session; he bawled them out and cut their weekly allowance./

grossa.html - (Youth Culture) see grody

grossa.html - adj., v., & n. --adj.

1 overfed, bloated; repulsively fat.
2 (of a person, manners, or morals) noticeably coarse, unrefined, or indecent.
3 flagrant; conspicuously wrong (gross negligence).
4 total; without deductions; not net (gross tonnage; gross income).
5 a luxuriant, rank. b thick, solid, dense.
6 (of the senses etc.) dull; lacking sensitivity.

--v.

tr. produce or earn as gross profit or income.

--n.

(pl. same) an amount equal to twelve dozen.

by the gross in large quantities; wholesale. gross domestic product the total value of goods produced and services provided in a country in one year. gross national product the gross domestic product plus the total of net income from abroad. gross out US sl. disgust, esp. by repulsive or obscene behaviour. gross up increase (a net amount) to its value before deductions.

grossly adv. grossness n. [ME f. OF gros grosse large f. LL grossus: (n.) f. F grosse douzaine large dozen]

grossa.html - {v.}, {slang} To commit a vulgar act; to repel someone by saying a disgusting or vulgar thing. * /You are going to gross out people if you continue talking like that./

grossa.html - {n.}, {slang}, {avoidable} A verbal contest between teen-agers in which the object of the game is to see who can be more disgusting or vulgar than anybody else. * /When Jim got home he found his two teen-age sons engaged in a gross-out session; he bawled them out and cut their weekly allowance./