greasy adj.1
1. (US black) used of something that is simultaneously appalling and appealing.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | in Erotic Muse (1992) 163: She’s easy, she’s greasy, she works on the street, / And whenever you see her, she’s always in heat. | |
 | ‘Fatty Girl’ 🎵 I feel greasy when you squeeze me. |
2. (US black) duplicitous.
| ? (Pronounced Que) [ebook] I told you this bitch was greasy! [...] They kidnapped Don! |
In phrases
(US prison) to treat someone badly.
| Other Side of the Wall: Prisoner’s Dict. July 🌐 Greasy: Doing someone wrong, as in ‘You did me greasy.’ (VA). | |
| mydogharriet.blogspot.com 23 Sept. 🌐 Then you can tell your daughter that she was out there wrong, that she did her friend greasy. |
(US) a phr. of farewell; ‘it’ being a metaphorical vehicle.
| Ebonics Primer at www.dolemite.com 🌐 keep it greasey Definition: stay cool, and don’t worry about anything. Example: say my nigga, keep it greasey. |
(US black) to rap smoothly and stylishly.
| ‘Wanksta’ 🎵 This rap shit is so easy / I’m getting what you get for a brick to talk greasy. |
SE in slang uses
In compounds
1. a treat given to parish officers in recompense for registering the birth of a bastard.
| , , | ![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. |
| Lex. Balatronicum. | |
| Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. |
2. a dinner.
| ‘Lay of St. Gengulphus’ in Bentley’s Misc. 291: And to every guest his card had expressed / ‘Half past’ as the hour for a ‘greasy chin’. |
(US black) a pickpocket.
| [ | ![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Bulletin (Sydney) 21 Jul. 10/3: Saw two pickpockets dash into a side-street to investigate a purse one of them had snatched [...]. ‘Well?’ said Lightning-Fingers, peering over Greasy-Hand’s shoulder]. |
| Juba to Jive. |
see grind n. (3d)
(US) a fat person.
| End as a Man (1963) 89: Look here, greasy guts. |
(US) any fast-food restaurant.
| (con. 1967) For Self and Country 18: Damn, why couldn’t I be home cruising the greasy Macs. |
see separate entry.
(US) a cheap restaurant or café; a diner.
| West Broadway 98: On my word the food ran from ten to fifty cents a portion, and this was no greasy vest, but a snappy little [...] tea room. |