Shahi - A visual dictionary

(noun)
1. Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem, wrap around it for a distance, and leave, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.
2. A lawn.
3. Marijuana.
4. An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities.
(verb)
1. To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.).
  - 1893, Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Naval Treaty’, Norton 2005, p.709:
    He flew at me with his knife, and I had to grass him twice, and got a cut over the knuckles, before I had the upper hand of him.
2. To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities.

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