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greys en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (UK, plural, plural-only, slang) Grey trousers and/or jackets worn by prisoners on relatively formal occasions.
    • “Drop your trousers!” I loosened the clasp on my prison greys and my trouser dropped to my ankles. 2013, Constantine Buller, Operation Dolby, page 266:
    • There was a clatter at the back of the gallery, a sharp word from a warder, and the men marched in in their prison greys, jackets too large, trousers too small. 1955, The Bedside "Guardian", page 40:
    • 'No one told me that I had to be dressed in Greys not Blues! When I appeared before the BOV I was told that I could not go in and see them because I was improperly dressed.' Quoted in 1982, Geoff Coggan, Martin J. Walker, Frightened for My Life: An Account of Deaths in British Prisons (page 110)
  2. (form-of, plural) plural of grey
    form of grey

greys en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person) third-person singular simple present indicative of grey
    form of grey