# greaseball

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. A person of Italian descent.
2. Any person of Mediterranean (Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek) or Hispanic (Latin American) descent.
3. A mechanic.
4. A biker, a tough.
5. A rocker or metalhead, especially one who listens to 1950s rock and roll or 1980s thrash metal.

## Etymology
From grease + ball; possibly derived from the fact that Italians and Italian-Americans are stereotyped as having greasy or greased-up hair.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/greaseball