greaseball

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person of Italian descent. US,derogatory,ethnic,slang,slur
    — (Italian)
  2. Any person of Mediterranean (Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek) or Hispanic (Latin American) descent. US,derogatory,ethnic,slang,slur
    — 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. slang
  4. A biker, a tough. slang
  5. A rocker or metalhead, especially one who listens to 1950s rock and roll or 1980s thrash metal. slang

词形变化

greaseballs plural

词源

Etymology tree
Vulgar Latin crassus~grassus
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Vulgar Latin -ius
Vulgar Latin -ia
Vulgar Latin *crassia
Anglo-Norman grecebor.
Middle English grece
English grease
English -ball
English greaseball
From grease + -ball.; possibly derived from the fact that Italians and Italian-Americans are stereotyped as having greasy or greased-up hair.
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