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greaseball
noun 5
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3ADJ.
fat
VERB + GREASEBALL
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GREASEBALL + NOUN
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Definitions
noun
1
A person of Italian descent.
(Italian)
2
Any person of Mediterranean (Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek) or Hispanic (Latin American) descent.
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.
3
A mechanic.
4
A biker, a tough.
5
A rocker or metalhead, especially one who listens to 1950s rock and roll or 1980s thrash metal.
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(Italian)
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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
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What a greaseball! He’d steal from his own mother.
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