Grosse 

A different way of spelling "gross". Used only by a few superior scholars who would know this rare spelling.

Wow Hayley always looks so grosse!" "Yeah she really needs to do something with her hair!

Grosse by JN33 January 9, 2011

Grosse 

German word for large, bastardised by American scum to mean something they don't like - probably born of looking in the mirror at their own obese forms. Also term for the figure 144 (12x12)

ooooh Gross ! my belly covers my upper thighs!

Grosse by Richard Grosse April 1, 2005

grosse 

something disgusting and not good

marc and his teeth are really grosse.

grosse by sexy beast June 30, 2004

grosse pointe towney 

Middling-class Grosse Pointers whose social status has declined CONSIDERABLY the past two decades or so on account of regional economic decline, a burgeoning newly affluent group of parvenus, and their own personal financial misfortunes. While never as wealthy nor distinguished as some of their blue-blood, mansion-owning neighbors, this group once enjoyed a reasonable level of material comfort and local prominence back in the pre-cable TV, pre-PC, pre-internet, pre-cell phone age (nee' Cold War era) and tended to predominate in those avenues of community life usually considered "common": little league baseball, brownies and cub scouts, city and municipal gov't, ice cream socials, PTA, et al. Alas, since the Reagan presidency, this sub-culture, like the plight of most middle class Americans everywhere, has slowly dissolved away to the newer and more affluent types with their store-bought designer clothes, McMansions, strange accents, and even more questionable occupations in some cases. This has forced some GPers, as a means of survival, to choose either "trading up" - at the risk of being referred to derisively as "bourgoise", "new money", or "traitors to their former class" or a decidedly LESS inviting move "down market" at the further risk of being declared "declasse'." Those who try to stay as they are (somehow defying social gravity by hanging on by their fingernails), do so at the risk of acquiring the ambiguous and rather demeaning moniker "towney." People residing in this new-found purgatory give themselves away unintentionally but unmistakably: deferred maintenance and repairs on homes, older and/or used cars, worn and out-dated furniture, fewer social events, little or no holiday celebrations, et al. "Towney" in this context means precisely what it implies: residents of a notable town or prominent enclave who themselves possess neither the stature, influential ties, nor net worth of its more pedigreed citizenry and often find themselves "jobbed out" by such gentry, or scrounging for other meager income opportunities in order to make ends meet. This phenomenon, while specific to the above mentioned locale, is more than likely occurring in any number of formerly respectable pre-World War I communities across the United States.

The film adaptation of the novel "House Of Sand And Fog", while depicting an old Iranian family in social and economic decline (and their rather desperate attempts to camoflage said occurrence) could easily be transposed to reflect what a great many current (and former) Grosse Pointers are going through in light of changing times. Never with a bonafide pedigree and a sudden lower status, they become, in effect, Grosse Pointe Towneys. Oh, how the mighty have fallen !

grosse pointe towney by Thorstein Veblen April 21, 2008

grosse pointe 

An affluent community which resides next to the wasteland/urban battlefield known as Detroit. "GP" as it is called by some, is a hotbed for money, teenage marijuana smoking, and a prodigious amount of alcohol thanks to expensive fake id's and lots of money.

Hey, Bob's having people over tonight, let's leave the GP bubble, hit up Cognac Castle, and avoid the fleet of cops on the way back.

grosse pointe by Miltar April 29, 2005

grosse brust 

Big supple breasts

My work colleague Nicole has grosse brust

grosse brust by Schwanz in der Augen January 16, 2016

grosse phoque 

it means "big seal" in French but it sounds like "gross fuck" phonetically

*looks at picture of a seal*
French guy: he looks like a grosse phoque

grosse phoque by Lancaster Bomber August 8, 2022