by the gross

adjective

1. big or fat and coarse-looking; corpulent; burly
2. glaring; flagrant; very bad: a gross miscalculation
3. dense; thick
4. 1. lacking fineness, as in texture
   2. lacking fine distinctions or specific details
5. lacking in refinement or perception; insensitive; dull
6. vulgar; obscene; coarse: gross language
7. Slang unpleasant, disgusting, offensive, etc.
8. with no deductions; total; entire: gross income
9. Archaic evident; obvious

noun

1. pl. grosses overall total, as of income, before deductions are taken
2. pl. gross twelve dozen

transitive verb, intransitive verb