grid n.2
1. the human face [? the teeth form a grid or grating].
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Outlaws (ms.) 47: It’s not often that you get the time to give your grid a proper fucking scrape. | |
| Stump 61: She’s seen ar fuckin grids now, hasn’t she? [...] Knows what we fuckin look like. |
2. (US) the rows of dialling buttons on a modern telephone.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Shame the Devil 82: He [...] dropped thirty cents into the slot, and punched some numbers into the grid. |
In derivatives
beyond respectable society, outside the usual records, identification, databases, etc.
| Boy from County Hell 71: Chopper’s folks lived off-grid. | |
| Seven Demons 155: [Y]ou can go off-grid here [i.e. Switzerland] if you want to but you never have to. |
In phrases
1. (US) illicit.
| August Snow [ebook] ‘What better way to protect big-ass pallets of off-the-grid cash than to move offshore onshore?’. |
2. outside the mainstream, counter-cultural.
| ‘Paradise’ in Broken 232: [A]anything, green alternative, off the grid, crunchy granola—that’s for Ben. |