gros-cul

French

Etymology

From gros +‎ cul.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁo.ky/

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Noun

gros-cul m (plural gros-culs)

1. (slang) a large lorry (UK) or truck (US)
2. (military slang) battleship
3. (military slang, obsolete) low-quality tobacco, especially the sort formerly issued to soldiers by the French army
4. (military slang, obsolete) a regulation French army flask with a capacity of two litres
5. (Lyon, colloquial) a small 460-millilitre wine bottle from the Lyon region
6. (Paris, slang, obsolete) Synonym of maître-chiffonier; a middle-class man who sold on items scavenged by rag-and-bone men in 19th-century Paris