GREASE ONE'S PALMS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does grease one's palms mean? 

• GREASE ONE'S PALMS (verb)
  The verb GREASE ONE'S PALMS has 1 sense:

1. make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence

  Familiarity information: GREASE ONE'S PALMS used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GREASE ONE'S PALMS (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

bribe; buy; corrupt; grease one's palms

Context example:

This judge can be bought

Hypernyms (to "grease one's palms" is one way to...):

pay (give money, usually in exchange for goods or services)

Domain category:

crime; criminal offence; criminal offense; law-breaking ((criminal law) an act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "grease one's palms"):

sop (give a conciliatory gift or bribe to)

buy off; pay off (pay someone with influence in order to receive a favor)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody