1891. J. Newman, Scamping Tricks, p. 119. I saw I was grassed, so I took his measurement.
1892. F. Anstey, Voces Populi. ‘The Riding-Class,’ p. 108. Didn’t get grassed, did you?
To give grass, verb. phr. (colloquial).—To yield.
To go to grass, verb. phr. (colloquial).—1. To abscond; to disappear. Also to hunt grass.
2. (common).—To fall sprawling; to be ruined; to die.
1876. Hindley, Cheap Jack, p. 237. Elias was sent to grass to rise no more off it.
3. (common).—To waste away (as of limbs).
To hunt grass, verb. phr. (common).—1. To decamp.
2. (cricket).—To field; to hunt leather (q.v.). [[196]]
3. (American). To fall; to go to ground; hence, to be puzzled or bewildered.