greaseball

Questions about greaseball

What does greaseball mean?

greaseball means "(ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Italian descent".

How many syllables are in greaseball?

greaseball has 4 syllables: gre-a-se-ball. The stress falls on "a".

What is another word for greaseball?

Close synonyms include wop, dago, ginzo, Guinea. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is greaseball a common word?

greaseball is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.