greaseball
Americannoun
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Extremely Disparaging and Offensive. a contemptuous term used to refer to a person of Mediterranean or Latin American descent.
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a person having oily or slicked-back hair.
Etymology
Origin of greaseball
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Saul Goodman, the sleazy lawyer introduced to audiences on Breaking Bad and played by Bob Odenkirk with unstoppable greaseball brio, does not much resemble a superhero.
From Slate ● Jan. 30, 2015
Much of Elvis crouches at the level of a self-conscious hipster poking fun at a greaseball bumpkin.
From Time Magazine Archive
For ten years Perry had baffled National and American League hitters with the best spitball, or slickest greaseball, in the game.
From Time Magazine Archive
Surely Jonathan Winters was the inspiration for such Carson characters as the garrulous Aunt Blabby, the right-wing dimwit Floyd R. Turbo, even the huckstering greaseball Art Fern.
From Time Magazine Archive
Pilots, Commanders, Supply and Operations officers, air mechanics, flight leaders, in fact everyone, from the C.O. down to the lowliest greaseball, pitches in with a gusto sufficient to produce a miracle.
From Aces Up by Covington Clarke
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