Meaning

5 senses

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

    (Italian)

    (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Italian descent

  2. (US, derogatory, ethnic, slang, slur)Any person of Mediterranean (Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek) or Hispanic (Latin American) descent.

  3. (slang)A mechanic.

  4. (slang)A biker, a tough.

  5. (slang)A rocker or metalhead, especially one who listens to 1950s rock and roll or 1980s thrash metal.

Examples

1 sentences

  1. What a greaseball! He’d steal from his own mother.

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Forms

plural: greaseballs
Singulargreaseball
Pluralgreaseballs

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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