sleaze v.
1. to move or treat in a repellent or seedy manner.
Punch 30 Dec. 986/2: Other plays, sleazing across the West End boards. | ||
🎵 And fools aren’t gonna follow / You don’t need to sleaze about. | ‘Sad, Sad, Sad’||
Apples (2023) 17: I just got stared out by random men [...] Some advice to boys: don’t sleaze us. |
2. (US) to acquire in a underhand manner.
(con. 1968) Reckoning for Kings (1989) 413: He figured Diaz for a wetback; asshole probably joined the fucking Army so he could sleaze a citizenship. |