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greaser|ˈgriːzə(r), ˈgriːsə(r)|
[f. grease v. + -er1.]
1.
†a. One who greases (sheep).
b. One who cleans and lubricates machinery, etc. with grease. spec. an engineer on a ship.
1641Best Farm. Bks. (Surtees) 30 Wee provide usually sixe or seaven greasers; and they will grease..sixe lambes a day. 1832Examiner 168/2 The sinecure place of greaser to the King's state-carriage wheels. 1888L. A. Smith Music of Waters 38 And who do you think was second greaser? 1889G. Findlay Eng. Railway 169 The train is accompanied by a staff of..greasers who keep a vigilant watch on each side of it. 1890Columbus (Ohio) Disp. 17 July, The head firemen [in steamers] are called ‘greasers’, and they oil and clean the machinery. 1899Daily News 3 Oct. 3/4 The nine men..are all said to be firemen or greasers. 1906Daily Chron. 20 Mar. 3/6 Every A.B. signing on for a British ship must prove that he has served already at least three years as an ordinary seaman on a British vessel, and that every fireman, greaser, &c., has served two years as trimmer, &c. 1909J. R. Ware Passing Eng. 147/1 Greaser (Navy, 1860–82), a scornful way of describing naval engineers. 1942Penguin New Writing XV. 9 Seamen don't salute bloody greasers.
c. (See quot. 1906.)
1906L. Claremont Gem-Cutter's Craft 100 The heavy material among which are the diamonds..is..passed through a machine called the ‘greaser’, which consists of a shaking table made of five shallow steps..coated with a thick layer of grease, and the diamonds adhere to the grease while the remainder of the gravel is washed away. 1962F. C. Phillips Smith's Gemstones (ed. 13) xx. 276 In this ingenious machine, the ‘jigger’ or ‘greaser’ as it is commonly termed, the concentrates are washed over a series of galvanized-iron trays, which are covered with a thick coat of grease.
d. A device for lubricating the parts of a motor vehicle with grease.
1908Westm. Gaz. 17 Nov. 5/2 Greasers are fitted every⁓where necessary. 1923[see grease-gun s.v. grease n. 6]. 1924A. W. Judge Mod. Motor Cars I. 245 The shackle pins..should be provided either with screw-down greasers or dust-proof oil cups.
2. a. U.S. slang. ‘A native Mexican or native Spanish American: originally applied contemptuously by Americans in the south-western United States to the Mexicans’ (Cent. Dict.).
1849G. F. Ruxton Life Far West 4 The Greasers payed for Bent's scalp, they tell me. Note, The Mexicans are called ‘Spaniards’ or ‘Greasers’ (from their greasy appearance) by the Western people. 1872C. King Mountain. Sierra Nev. vi. 113, I thought them not worse than the average Californian greaser. 1883B. Harte Carquinez Woods vii. 154 note, Greasers—Californian slang for a mixed race of Mexicans and Indians.
attrib.1855Frank Marryat Mount. & Mole Hills xiv. 263 The term ‘greaser camp’ as applied to a Mexican encampment is truthfully suggestive of the filth and squalor the passing traveller will observe there. 1888Century Mag. Oct. 836 The cowboys..fairly stormed the ‘Greaser’—that is, Mexican—village.
b. An objectionable person; a sycophant. (Cf. grease n. 5 b.)
1900J. S. Farmer Public School Word-Book 100 Greaser,..a cad. 1911D. Coke Wilson's vii. 74 Dick could not help wondering..what possible breach of House discipline could brand a fellow as a beastly greazer. 1958Spectator 7 Feb. 163/1 The dismissive contempt the little greaser had so richly earned. 1959I. & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolch. x. 191 Grease is a very popular word in school just now, and seems to be short for ‘greaser’—i.e. sycophant, soft-soaper, teacher's pet.
c. A term applied, orig. in California, later elsewhere, to long-haired youths who, as members of a group or gang, ride about habitually on motor-cycles (in California, in ‘hot rods’).
1964San Francisco Examiner 26 Jan. i. 14 The boy distinguished..‘the Surfers’..from less-favored individuals called ‘Greasers’, who indulge in such gauche activities as drag-racing, putting grease on their hair, smoking marijuana and dancing the Twist. 1965Sun 8 June 7/7 You can call rockers Greasers if you like... Greasers just means they have to put a lot of work into bikes. 1969Guardian 23 Sept. 5/1 The London Street Commune..intends forming a ‘working coalition between greasers, skinheads, and beats’. 1970Daily Mirror 31 Mar. 24/4, 200 teenagers—both skin-heads and ‘greasers’, who are long-haired youths—fought for two hours with bricks and chains. 1971Daily Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 3 Sept. 41 The surfers used to refer to the hotrodders neither as hotrodders nor as Hair Boys, but as ‘greasers’. 1971It 7–21 Oct. 21/3 From the very start he seemed bound for Angeldom, leading a young pack of greasers down Leyton Baths on a regular basis and battling with the Mods.
Add:3. A smooth landing in an aircraft, esp. one made in difficult conditions. Aeronaut. slang.
[1956W. A. Heflin U.S. Air Force Dict. 235/1 To grease it in, to make an exceptionally smooth landing in an airplane.] 1980Amat. Photographer 26 July 73/4 The undercarriage structure was intact and..the plane could make a ‘greaser’, a light landing to avoid further damage. 1985New Yorker 26 Aug. 50/3, I manage to perform what is known in the trade as a ‘greaser’—a landing so gentle that you're not exactly sure when you touch the ground. 1990Pilot Sept. 13/2 Wet runways can be flattering to your landings, but it is best to try and avoid ‘greasers’ and attempt a firm landing in order to punch through the water to the runway surface and get some grip. |