grill n.1
1. (US black) the stomach.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Jive and Sl. |
2. (US black/teen) the face or mouth; thus one’s personal space.
| ‘Superrappin’ 🎵 If my Mercedes break down and dull my grill . | |
| ‘Personal’ 🎵 My style don’t ramble, you shouldn’t gamble / With your grill. | |
| Da Bomb Summer Supplement 7: Grill [...] 3. (n.) A person’s business. I wish everyone would stay out of my grill. | |
| ‘The Routine’Oz ser. 1 ep. 1 [TV script] Uppercuts to the grill / I’m like ‘Kill!’. | |
| ‘Unconfirmed Reports’ Wire ser. 5 ep. 2 [TV script] Send my sister a hundred large, and the next time you come in Jessup, it won’t be my grill talkin’ at you. | |
| This Is How You Lose Her 183: Deadbeats catch one peep of your dismal grill and cough up their debts. | |
| Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit 122: You need to get out my grill, bitch. |
3. (also grille) the teeth.
| Campus Sl. Apr. 5: grill – teeth, mouth, or smile: ‘She has a messed up grill’. | |
 | Online Sl. Dict. 🌐 grill n 1. teeth. (‘That chick is cute but she’s got a bad grill.’). | |
| (con. 1975–6) Steel Toes 113: Leave ya alone for a little while and ya come back an ex-con with a missing grille. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Sl. Gloss. 🌐 grill: teeth. | |
| Pain Killers 298: The reverend laughed and showed off his gold grill. |
4. (US black) an intense stare.
| ‘Ebonics’ 🎵 A very hard, long stare is a grill. | |
| Corruption Officer [ebk] cap. 26: He had the grill face on so I matched his intensity. |
5. (US black) a metal overlay for the teeth, usu. ornamented with precious stones.
| Urban Dict. 30 Nov. 🌐 grill A gold/diamond plate that is molded for your teeth. It is decorated with diamonds and/or gold. Uusally worn by rappers. | |
| ‘Goldmine’ 🎵 We was in that bitch all like Lil Wayne grill. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | What They Was 21: Rob, shoot, trap, spend the profits on some diamond grillz for your teeth . |
In phrases
(US campus) aggressively confronting someone, whether verbally or physically.
| Campus Sl. Nov. 1: all up in one’s grill – in intense physical or verbal confrontation: ‘Man she sure is up in his grill about that, isn’t she?’. | |
| Ebonics Primer at www.dolemite.com 🌐 grill Definition: 1. face, 2. ones personal space. Example: Dat nigga be’s gettin’ all up in muh grill and shit. | |
| Call of the Weird (2006) 187: The rapper whose turn it was would [...] bring his face close, getting ‘right up in his grill,’. | |
| On the Bro’d 130: I wasn’t gonna get up in his grill . | |
| Razorblade Tears 172: ‘Fools would be all up in his grill asking for autographs and shit’. |
(US teen) to beat up; to hit in the mouth.
| (con. 1998–2000) You Got Nothing Coming 26: That’s some fucked-up shit! Damn near busted my fucking grill! | |
| Teen Lingo: The Source for Youth Ministry 🌐 Bust Yo Grill! v. To bust someone’s ‘grill’ means to hit them in the mouth or beat them up. |