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greaseball
noun- a person of Latin-American or Mediterranean extraction US, 1922
A derogatory generic derived from a swarthy complexion. - The hell you are, baby. With that greaseball? My aching back! — Frederick Kohner, Gidget Goes to Rome, p. 84, 1963
- — American Speech, p. 306, December 1964: “Lingua cosa nostra”
- Three kikes, one guinea, one greaseball. — Lenny Bruce, The Essential Lenny Bruce, p. 11, 1967
- The second time around she was standing with some monster guinea with a leather jacket and no teeth. She pointed at Buddy. The big greaseball lumbered over to the car[.] — Richard Price, The Wanderers, p. 186, 1974
- All he did, he said sorta under his breath, he said “greaseballs, fucking spicdicks” – and they laid into him. — Saturday Night Fever, 1977
- It was among the Italians. It was real greaseball shit. — Goodfellas, 1990
- Now, these old greaseballs might not look it, but believe me, these are the guys who secretly controlled Las Vegas. — Casino, 1995
- an odious, unappealing, unattractive person US, 1917
Derives from racist usage. - The greaseball on the floor was awake now, but he wasn’t looking at me. — Mickey Spillane, My Gun is Quick, p. 10, 1950
- I’ll pay you when I’m good and ready, you dirty leech. Until then, stay out of my way. God, what a greaseball. — Bernard Wolfe, The Late Risers, p. 10, 1954
- [S]ome greaseball zillionaire in a sta-prest suit — Melanie McGrath, Hard, Soft and Wet, p. 42, 1998
- a railway mechanic US
- — Ramon Adams, The Language of the Railroader, p. 71, 1977
- in circus and carnival usage, a food concession stand US
- — Don Wilmeth, The Language of American Popular Entertainment, p. 117, 1981
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