grass-eater
Meanings
noun
- An organism notable for eating grass
- A fish of species Distichodus rostratus or Distichodus engycephalus, of Africa
- A police officer who accepts offered bribes but does not actively seek them out.
noun
- A celibate man, especially a Japanese man, who eschews dating and sexual relationships.
Word forms
Etymology
From grass + eater; applied to bribe-accepting polics by the Knapp Commission in the 1970s.
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