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noun
Greaser  n.  
1.
One who, or that which, greases; specifically, a person employed to lubricate the working parts of machinery, engines, carriages, etc.
2.
A nickname sometimes applied in contempt to a Mexican or other Latin-American of the lowest type; derogatory and offensive. (Low, U. S.)






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"Greaser" Quotes from Famous Books



... well, then you will understand that I don't start out to pick a needless quarrel with the New Witness crowd. But this business of the Hueffer book in the New Witness makes me sick. Some disgusting little greaser named —— has been allowed to insult old F.M.H. in a series of letters that make me ashamed of my species. Hueffer has many faults no doubt but firstly he's poor, secondly he's notoriously unhappy and in a most miserable position, thirdly he's a better writer ...
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton • Maisie Ward

... he saw us. I hope he did: it would shut that Manuela's mouth for a month of Sundays. (Laughs.) God forgive me for it! I've done a heap of things for that young gal Dona Jovita; but this yer gittin' soft on the Greaser maid-servant to help out the misses is a little more than Sandy ...
— Two Men of Sandy Bar - A Drama • Bret Harte

... Temple, leaning forward and speaking impressively, "that he was pretty certain one man was a Greaser and the other a Hun. Those were his own words. Of course, he meant one was a Mexican and the other ...
— The Radio Boys on the Mexican Border • Gerald Breckenridge

... prominent family. Yet he knew of mothers who carefully guarded their daughters from the peril of falling in love with him, and most of his boyhood fights had started when some one called him a "damned Mexican" or a "greaser." ...
— The Blood of the Conquerors • Harvey Fergusson

... dreamed some rosy dreams about it. But his men felt diff'rent. They wanted action on the cashier's part, or they'd quit. Hammond begged 'em to stay. He even blew in his own bank account settlin' part of the back wages. But inside of three days his crew had dwindled to a Chinese cook and a Greaser mule driver. Took him a couple of weeks more to get wise to the fact that he was stranded there in the sand, six miles from a water hole, with a few cases of canned beef and a sack ...
— Shorty McCabe on the Job • Sewell Ford

... 6; exteriority &c 220; alienage^, alienism. foreign body, foreign substance, foreign element; alien, stranger, intruder, interloper, foreigner, novus homo [Lat.], newcomer, immigrant, emigrant; creole, Africander^; outsider; Dago [Slang], wop, mick, polak, greaser, slant, Easterner [U.S.], Dutchman, tenderfoot. Adj. extraneous, foreign, alien, ulterior; tramontane, ultramontane. excluded &c 55; inadmissible; exceptional. Adv. in foreign parts, in foreign lands; abroad, beyond seas; ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget



Words linked to "Greaser" :   depreciation, Mexican, disparagement, wetback, ethnic slur



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