Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Used as a disparaging term for a person of Latin and especially Italian descent.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun offensive slang a person of Italian descent; -- used as a derogatory ethnic slur, and considered offensive.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun US, slang, pejorative, ethnic slur A person of
Italian descent.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Italian descent
Etymologies
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Examples
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Somebody killed the old man and the guy you called a greaseball.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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Somebody killed the old man and the guy you called a greaseball.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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Somebody killed the old man and the guy you called a greaseball.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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Somebody killed the old man and the guy you called a greaseball.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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"I hated the negatives that we were subjected to - the 'greaseball' and the 'guinea' and the 'wop,'" recalled
NYT > Home Page 2010
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"I hated the negatives that we were subjected to - the 'greaseball' and the 'guinea' and the 'wop,'" recalled
NYT > Home Page 2010
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Enter vicious greaseball De Witt Albright, a creepy white man par excellence who has an ostensibly simple request: find the lovely miss Daphne Monet, a blonde with a penchant for black men.
Today's Book Review 2010
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Eww, why would anyone date a greaseball like Pattinson?
Courtney Love Loses Custody Of Daughter Frances Bean Cobain 2009
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Enter vicious greaseball De Witt Albright, a creepy white man par excellence who has an ostensibly simple request: find the lovely miss Daphne Monet, a blonde with a penchant for black men.
Archive 2010-01-01 2010
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And the truth is that the same pack of greaseball oligarchs have done it again.
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