greek

1. (countable) A person from Greece or of Greek descent.Examples: "The Greeks believed the sun went round the earth."countable

2. (uncountable) Greek cuisine, traditional or representative Greek food.uncountable

3. (uncountable, figurative, colloquial) Synonym of gibberish, used for foreign speech or text, technical jargon, or advanced subjects.Examples: ""I don't hear one word in ten that they say," continued Mrs. Abingdon; "it's Greek to me. However, ...""; ""It's all Greek to me," said my companion at the outset, but as the warrior continued, his fears arose within him; it might be sentence of death—what did he know what it might not be?"; "preferred risk... family maintenance... 20-pay life. That's a bare sampling of the merchandise you're asked to pick and choose from. If it sounds like Greek to you, don't worry. It sounds like Greek to most people."Synonyms: gibberish, used for foreign speech or text, technical jargon, or advanced subjectscolloquialfigurativelyuncountable

4. (uncountable, figurative, metonymic, colloquial) Synonym of lorem ipsum, dummy placeholder text used in greeking.Synonyms: lorem ipsum, dummy placeholder text used in greekingcolloquialfigurativelymetonymicallyuncountable

5. (countable, US, metonymic, colloquial) A member of a collegiate fraternity or sorority.Examples: "Was Joe a Greek in college?"UScolloquialcountablemetonymically

6. (countable, archaic, slang) A cunning rogue.Examples: "The wind-up is, that the father becomes bankrupt; the wife and daughters town-traders; the sons Greeks, Fancy-swells, Conveyancers (pickpockets), or Cracksmen (house breakers), and the New Drop is the last drop they ever take."; "When Greek meets Greek neither is wont to get much satisfaction."archaiccountableslang

1. (obsolete) To cheat at cards.Examples: "A discovery of Greeking at Brighton, has made considerable noise this month in the sporting world."obsolete

2. (uncommon) Alternative letter-case form of greek.alt-ofuncommon

1. (transitive, computing) To display a placeholder (instead of text), especially to optimize speed in displaying text that would be too small to read.Examples: "You can specify the type size below which text will be greeked in the Preferences dialog box. Designers often prefer to use greeked text in rough layouts because it helps the client focus on the design rather than on the words."; "If text gets smaller than this value, [Adobe] Illustrator shows the text blocks as gray bars, an operation called greeking. Both type size and view size figure into the equation, so that 6-point type greeks at 100-percent view size and 12-point type greeks at 50 percent. Greeking speeds the screen display because gray bars are easier to draw than individual characters."transitive

2. (transitive, computing) To fill a template with nonsense text (particularly the Lorem ipsum), so that form can be focused on instead of content.transitive

3. (transitive) To obscure a corporate logo that has not been permitted for use in a production.transitive