Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as quick-grass, quitch-grass.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • (Bot.) See quitch grass.

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  • noun Alternative form of quackgrass.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun European grass spreading rapidly by creeping rhizomes; naturalized in North America as a weed
  • noun European grass spreading rapidly by creeping rhizomes; naturalized in North America as a weed

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Variant of quitch grass.]

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  • "He had returned from a performance a little later than usual; it was April, midnight. The caravan stood on a plot of land near the coastal community of VedVedbæk. He had owned the property for twenty years without applying for a building permit. Its ten thousand square metres of quack grass stretched down to the beach, encircled by fir trees."

    - 'The Quiet Girl', Peter Høeg.

    March 18, 2008