be fresh with (one)
1. To be disrespectfully forward, bold, or impudent toward one. Don't be fresh with your mother, young lady! Whenever a student is being fresh with me, I make them sit in front of the entire class and answer every question I ask. Are you really going to be fresh with me? All right, then, you're grounded for two weeks!
2. To grope or caress one in an aggressive, overeager, or unsolicited sexual manner. We were having a lovely date, but then he started being fresh with me in the movie theater. The secretary alleges that the CEO was fresh with her multiple times during the course of her time working at the company. A: "Whoa, you really slapped him in the face?" B: "He was being fresh with me! What was I supposed to do?"
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