grass vs stag

grass

verb
  • To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities. 

  • To bring to the grass or ground; to land. 

  • To feed with grass. 

  • To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.). 

  • To cover with grass or with turf. 

  • To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc. 

noun
  • Asparagus; "sparrowgrass". 

  • Marijuana. 

  • Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced by random interference. 

  • The season of fresh grass; spring or summer. 

  • An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities. 

  • The surface of a mine. 

  • A lawn. 

  • Various plants not in family Poaceae that resemble grasses. 

  • Noise on an A-scope or similar type of radar display. 

  • Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain. 

stag

verb
  • To watch; to dog, or keep track of. 

  • To act as a "stag", an irregular dealer in stocks. 

adv
  • Of a man, attending a formal social function without a date. 

noun
  • An adult male deer. 

  • An outside irregular dealer in stocks, who is not a member of the exchange. 

  • Guard duty. 

  • One who applies for the allotment of shares in new projects, with a view to sell immediately at a premium, and not to hold the stock. 

  • An unmarried man; a bachelor; a man not accompanying a woman at a social event. 

  • A stag beetle (family Lucanidae). 

  • A colt, or filly. 

  • A social event for men held in honor of a groom on the eve of his wedding, attended by male friends of the groom; sometimes a fundraiser. 

  • The Eurasian wren, Troglodytes troglodytes. 

  • An improperly or late castrated bull or ram – also called a bull seg (see note under ox). 

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