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Definition: Greaseball |
GreaseballNoun1. Ethnic slur; offensive terms for a person of Italian descent. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: GreaseballSynonyms: dago (n), wop (n). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Let me lay it on the line for you and your boss, whoever he is. Johnny Fontane willl never get that movie! I don't care how many dago guinea wop greaseball goombahs come out of the woodwork! (The Godfather; writing credit: Francis Ford Coppola; Mario Puzo) Roberta's not working with the greaseball. (Desperately Seeking Susan; writing credit: Leora Barish) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Frederick, Maryland. Greaseball, a mascot at the Stevens Airport. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Greaseball" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Greaseball" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "greaseball": greaseballs. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-e-e-g-l-l-r-s" | |
-1 letter: resalable. | |
-2 letters: algebras, allegers, erasable, gabelles, labelers, leasable, relabels, saleable, sealable. | |
-3 letters: alegars, algebra, alleger, alleges, arables, ballers, bareges, bargees, beagles, begalls, gabelle, galeres, garbles, gelable, laagers, labeler, regales, relabel, salable. | |
-4 letters: abaser, abeles, aglare, agrees, alegar, allees, allege, arable, argals, argles, bagels, balers, baller, barege, bargee, barges, beagle, begall, belgas, belles, blares, blears. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-e-e-g-l-l-r-s" | |
+1 letter: greaseballs. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 72 65 61 73 65 62 61 6C 6C |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. .-. . .- ... . -... .- .-.. .-.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01110010 01100101 01100001 01110011 01100101 01100010 01100001 01101100 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G r e a s e b a l l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0072 0065 0061 0073 0065 0062 0061 006C 006C |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)41847167857168677878 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Images: Photo Album | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Derivations 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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