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n. (greasy spoon English)
Usage examples of "greasy spoons".
That was even worse than the greasy spoons he'd haunted as he bounced from one minor-league town to the next.
And who knows, there might even be a few greasy spoons in this town so happy to see a copper that they will spontaneously offer him a free nosh.
Mamie Louise was sick and the other all-night greasy spoons and barbecue joints had no appeal.
The Oddity didn't drink in any of the usual gin joints, eat in any of the usual greasy spoons, or get his or her ashes hauled in any of the usual cathouses.
A movie house, a bank, a couple of realtors, ice cream and pizza parlors, supermarkets, drugstores, bars, a half dozen greasy spoons, a couple of upmarket but still essentially tacky restaurants, a Lutheran church, a sheriff's office with a small jail facility for drunks to dry out in, two motels.
Black and white people came from nearby bars, from the dim stinking doorways, from the flea-bag hotels, from the cafeterias, the greasy spoons, from the shoe-shine parlors, the poolrooms -- pansies and prostitutes, ordinary bar drinkers and strangers in the area who had stopped for a bit to eat, Johns and squares looking for excitement, muggers and sneak thieves looking for victims.
The houses were dark and the stores shuttered, the greasy spoons and the news-stands not yet open.
The neon signs of the bars and pool rooms and greasy spoons burned like phosphorescent fires.
There were restaurants open at this hour, the cheap greasy spoons offering fat-fried starch called potatoes, and dripping pig meat laced with chemicals that attacked the average person slowly, but could do monumental damage to Remo's refined nervous system.