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How to spell grass

Grass is spelled G-R-A-S-S. The part people get wrong: double S.

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What it means: A common green plant that grows in fields.

In a sentence: The cow eats the green grass.

The part people get wrong

Watch for double s.

Same family: grass (ordinary meaning: green plants on the ground), grassland, grassroots, informer, snitch. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: This slang use of "grass" meaning an informer is mainly British and likely comes from the phrase "grasshopper" in Cockney rhyming slang, which rhymes with "copper" (a police officer). Over time, the word was shortened from "grasshopper" to "grass" and came to mean someone who informs the police.

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