as in told (on)
to give information (as to the authorities) about another's improper or unlawful activities
that bloke would grass on his own mater to save himself
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Reid has talked often this week about how there’s only one football to go around.—
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New York Times,
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Lopez talked to British Vogue in 2024 about motherhood.—
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But the varied syncopation and intense emotional registers of Orthodox worship music informed his approach to an album that balances weighty introspection with buoyant production and evocative imagery.—
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Rolling Stone,
20 Oct. 2025
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Sunday’s Matchweek 8 headliner pairs two of the world’s most popular clubs, and each side is informed by its own level of urgency.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
New York Times,
19 Oct. 2025
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“Grassed (on).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grassed%20%28on%29. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.
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