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greaser

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Noun
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greas=er

CIDE DICTIONARY

greasern. 
  •  One who, or that which, greases; specifically, a person employed to lubricate the working parts of machinery, engines, carriages, etc.  [1913 Webster]
  •  A nickname sometimes applied in contempt to a Mexican or other Latin-American of the lowest type; -- derogatory and offensive.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

greaser, n.
1 a person or thing that greases.
2 sl. a member of a gang of youths with long hair and riding motor cycles.
3 US sl. offens. a Mexican or Spanish-American.
4 sl. a gentle landing of an aircraft.

ROGET THESAURUS

greaser

Extraneousness

N extraneousness, extrinsicality, exteriority, alienage, alienism, foreign body, foreign substance, foreign element, alien, stranger, intruder, interloper, foreigner, novus homo, newcomer, immigrant, emigrant, creole, Africander, outsider, Dago, wop, mick, polak, greaser, slant, Easterner, Dutchman, tenderfoot, extraneous, foreign, alien, ulterior, tramontane, ultramontane, excluded, inadmissible, exceptional, in foreign parts, in foreign lands, abroad, beyond seas, over sea on one's travels.


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