greaseball
Plural: greaseballs
Noun
- (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Italian descent
- A person of Italian descent especially, but also used pejoratively to refer to people of Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, other Mediterranean, or Latin American descent.
- A mechanic.
- A biker, a tough.
- A rocker or metalhead, especially one who listens to 1950s rock and roll or 1980s thrash metal.
Origin / Etymology
From grease + ball; possibly derived from the fact that Italians and Italian-Americans are stereotyped as having greasy or greased-up hair.
Scrabble Score: 13
greaseball: not valid in Scrabble (US) TWL Dictionarygreaseball: not valid in Scrabble (MW) Merriam-Webster Dictionary
greaseball: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 17
greaseball: valid Words With Friends Word