Greaser

Synonyms for "greaser" (14 found)

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Closest matches (3)

Noun(1 words)
delinquent youth

Strong matches (4)

Noun(2 words)
grease monkeylubricator

Related words (7)

Noun(5 words)
oilmansubculture membertacoteen rebelwetback

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3 entries
bearing greasermachine greaserteen rebel

Collocations

6 entries
grease monkeygreaser culturegreaser hairstylegreaser jacketgreaser subculturemidcentury greaser

Inflections

1 entries

Derivations

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Sample sentences

4 total sentences available.

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The pole was greased and men tried to walk out to the end of it and dislodge the crate. The pole was supple, the crate swayed as each man crept out clinging desperately and finally fell off into the sea. […] People roared with laughter and greasers applied fresh grease for the next person's try.

Source: wiktionary

... incidentally, our correspondent tells of a West Indian who applied for a job at Kings Cross as motion greaser - but with no idea of what he would have to grease and why. Invited to find out and return within a month, he did, and nowadays the Kings Cross engines are as efficiently greased as any on B.R.

Source: wiktionary

By such standards, the Greasers are pretty minor stuff. Basically, they're just the 1970 version of that time-honored English figure, the Leather Boy. During the fifties, he was known as the Teddy Boy; in the early sixties, he became the Rocker; and now, after a couple of earlier attempts at revival, he's back yet again, the Greaser.

Source: wiktionary

A pair of Greasers were ahead of me, but I could see only their outlines, and they didn't seem to interfere any with the scenery.

Source: wiktionary

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