[Vocabulary] grooming and sexually abusing

[sitifan]

A NORTH Yorkshire man has been jailed for six-and-a-half years for grooming and sexually abusing a 15-year-old girl.
https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/19490241.man-jailed-grooming-sexually-abusing-15-year-old-girl/
What does "grooming" mean in the quoted sentence?

 

[5jj]

a​

to prepare a child for illegal activity, especially sexual activity or selling drugs

Many times children are groomed by predators online.

The men were convicted of systematically grooming and sexually abusing teenage girls.

Gangs are increasingly using violence to groom children to be used as drug mules.

https://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/american/groom_2

 

[Skrej]

Note that the definition 5jj provided (2a) is a specialized meaning of the broader definition #2, which just refers to preparing someone for a specific task. It's just a coincidence they again chose a young girl for the sample sentence in #2.

You can 'groom' someone of any age for any task. The Cambridge examples make that a little clearer, as well as a surprising special context for snow, which I'd never heard and will certainly never use.

 

[Tdol]

The snow one was new to me too. It may be jargon, but I haven't heard it in conversation.

 

[emsr2d2]

I was familiar with "grooming snow" from my ski trips.

 

[probus]

The snow one was new to me too. It may be jargon, but I haven't heard it in conversation.

It is skiing jargon, very common here in the Great White North.