The word "greaseball" is usable in written English, but it is considered derogatory.
It is typically used as a slur against individuals of Italian descent or as a general insult. Example: "He called him a greaseball during the argument, which only escalated the tension." Alternatives include "slob" or "lowlife."
She reached a breaking point when a "fat greaseball", whom Mohammed Karrar told her to get in a car with, drove her up to a wooded area and demanded sex.
In the spring of 1983, Eppolito was on patrol, driving by the Café Italia, on Eighteenth Avenue in Bensonhurst, when he spotted a "greaseball" adjusting his crotch and looking Eppolito's way.
The greaseball was Rosario Gambino, a made man from the Sicilian crew, who was under surveillance from the Organized Crime Control Bureau, and Eppolito's exchange had been caught on tape: "a two-minute, off-the-cuff conversation that was about to ruin my career".
He pulled out a piece of campaign literature that called him "Godfather" and "insolent greaseball" and which charged that Bolden supporters, if victorious, would steer jobs and contracts away from blacks.
"This suit," explains Gene, grabbing the sleeve of a shiny pinstripe suit in one store, "says you're a greaseball".
"Mmmm, there's so much of it," Mother scowled, noting the shiny greaseball helmet that had previously been my hair.
Still, all you have to do, while stuffed, is take a few steps forward and drop a twelve-pound ball on the floor, so there's no sin in downing the carefully considered greaseballs the Blue Ribbon boys sling your way.
Al and his close friend, Files De Amato, accompanied two blondes to the Adonis Social Club at 154 Twentieth Street, Brooklyn, where Pegleg inquired: "What the hell are them white girls doing with a pair of greaseballs?" A minute later the lights went out.
disco / (dis ko) / n. / popular dance music, especially of the 1970's, characterized by strong repetitive bass rhythms and hairy-chested greaseballs with even stronger after-shave; a discothèque, as in, ' "I bought some new platforms to wear to the Byblos disco in St.-Tropez St.-Tropezave yor Haved about that amazing new disco that's going off in Eritrea?
"Dagos, guineas, greaseballs, wops.
"I hated the negatives that we were subjected to — the 'greaseball' and the 'guinea' and the 'wop,' " recalled Mario M. Cuomo, the former New York governor and a hero to Italian-Americans.
