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Greaseball

noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    A person of Italian descent. US, derogatory, ethnic, slang, slur

    "(Italian)"

  2. 2
    (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Italian descent wordnet
  3. 3
    Any person of Mediterranean (Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek) or Hispanic (Latin American) descent. US, derogatory, ethnic, slang, slur

    "Do you think I wanted to walk across that stage and get my diploma and look down and see that fat greaseball sitting there? […] I got into a fraternity, too. It wasn’t one of the good ones, not with a name like Pinzetti, but a fraternity all the same."

  4. 4
    A mechanic. slang
  5. 5
    A biker, a tough. slang
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  1. 6
    A rocker or metalhead, especially one who listens to 1950s rock and roll or 1980s thrash metal. slang

Etymology

From grease + ball; possibly derived from the fact that Italians and Italian-Americans are stereotyped as having greasy or greased-up hair.

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