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Usage examples of greaser.

There were truck-weighers, coal tram-weighers, engineers, stokers, tenders, strikers, lampmen, cogmen, banksmiths, rubbish-tippers, greasers, screeners, trimmers, labourers, small-coal pickers, doorboys, hitchers, hauliers, firemen .

I could get some position at Court for the uncouth Mr Pierpoint, who is a mere bargeman, and I learned at once a lesson I never let myself forget: that power and success carry in their train a clamouring queue of greasers and supplicants, the noise and sight of which haunt my private pleasures and my dreams, but from whom multifarious and handsome bribes may very often be had.

There were truck-weighers, coal tram-weighers, engineers, stokers, tenders, strikers, lampmen, cogmen, banksmiths, rubbish-tippers, greasers, screeners, trimmers, labourers, small-coal pickers, doorboys, hitchers, hauliers, firemen .

Ramon and Muddy-hairo, or whatever his name is, hev thet greaser community purty well tagged with our descriptions by now.

Instead of Nazi soldiers, clowns and punkers and greasers and space creatures and God-knows-what-all roamed the outer edges of the area trying to control the crowd of mainly unruly teenagers who pushed into turnstiled entryways, shoving their tickets into the hands of other oddly costumed types.

He merely grunted, having no idea what greasers were, and thinking that they sounded even worse than the art teacher.

More than her talk of greasers and art teachers, it made her a foreign creature.

One of the miners yelled in, "Some Mex greaser jist killed Frank Boilings and his partner, Hiram Flagg.

Shore Bull an' that white devil with his Greaser name--they could run down my bronch, kill him in a mile of cactus.

Shore Bull an' that white devil with his Greaser name–they could run down my bronch, kill him in a mile of cactus.

The whole caboodle of Greasers on both sides belong to the class in sympathy with the rebels, the class that secretly respects men like Rojas, and hates an aristocrat like Mercedes.

There he was, year in and year out, standing in idleness and ignorance on the corner of Chancellor and Leslie, perched like some greaser over his bongo drums, his duck's ass bare to the heavens- and nothing and nobody struck him down!

I had no intention of going cap in hand to wake him and beg his gun just because a sea-lawyer of a greaser had claimed to have seen a ghost.

The foreign bit goes over especially well with small-town types, and is also amazingly good for avoiding hassles with greasers.

They agreed to swear the finger-biting on the Greaser in open court, and get him sent to the penitentiary for the crime of mayhem.