grease

grease
   1. to bribe
   The usage predates OIL, of which it is a euphemistic synonym. Either tout court, as a verb or noun, or in phrases such as grease hands, palms, paws, the skids, the system, etc.:
    With gold and grotes they grease my hands, In stede of ryght that wrong may stand. (Skelton, 1533 — a groat was a silver coin worth four pence)
    Every D.C. firm had entire wings of lawyers greasing the skids. (Grisham, 1998)
    He lacked the financial resources with which Oskar greased the system. (Keneally, 1982)
   2. American
   to kill
   The allusion is perhaps to converting the body into a fatty substance, or a corruption of crease:
    If... he makes any threatening movement — anything at all — grease him. (Sanders, 1973)

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