grease

It is important to have paper towels, not just a cooling rack, because they pull the excess grease off, making whatever you fry even more perfect.

And though it was only grease for the wheels, it was a start.

But as Douthat knows, some pretense is always necessary to grease the wheels of personal relations, especially of diplomacy.

A "large" sewer blockage caused by "fat, grease and rags" has forced the cancellation of a Bryan Adams concert in Australia on public health grounds.

Imagine, a Kansas City Chiefs bar in the City of Brotherly Love, where authorities have to grease the light poles to keep jubilant Eagles fans from climbing them — and even that doesn’t work.