greaseball

Meaning

Noun

• A person of Italian, 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.

Related

Similar words

• dago
• Eyetie
• goombah
• guido
• guinea
• wog
• wop

Origin

• grease + ball; derived from the fact that Italian-Americans are stereotyped as having greasy or greased-up hair, e.g. John Travolta in Grease and Saturday Night Fever.