grass-eater

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An organism notable for eating grass
  2. A fish of species Distichodus rostratus or Distichodus engycephalus, of Africa
  3. A police officer who accepts offered bribes but does not actively seek them out.
noun
  1. A celibate man, especially a Japanese man, who eschews dating and sexual relationships.

Word forms

grass-eater grass-eaters

Etymology

From grass + eater; applied to bribe-accepting polics by the Knapp Commission in the 1970s.

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