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  • The little guy, whom I had dubbed Greaser Number Two for lack of a better term, made his way to the end wall and started kicking open stalls.

    I Am Not A Psychic! Richard Belzer 2009

  • The little guy, whom I had dubbed Greaser Number Two for lack of a better term, made his way to the end wall and started kicking open stalls.

    I Am Not A Psychic! Richard Belzer 2009

  • The little guy, whom I had dubbed Greaser Number Two for lack of a better term, made his way to the end wall and started kicking open stalls.

    I Am Not A Psychic! Richard Belzer 2009

  • On the outskirts of Eldara there was a little shack owned by a Mexican -- José, he was called, and nothing else, "Greaser" José.

    Trailin'! Max Brand 1918

  • In the other, to avenge the murder of one of their number, the cowboys gathered from the country round about and fairly stormed the "Greaser" (that is, Mexican) village where the murder had been committed, killing four of the inhabitants.

    Frontier Types 1896

  • "Greaser" packers, who were models of temperance when only Gringo whiskey or German beer could be had, would sometimes stampede at the mere whisper of mescal.

    Tonio, Son of the Sierras A Story of the Apache War Charles King 1888

  • "Greaser," or Mexican -- his index finger steeped in cigarette stains; his velvet jacket and his crimson sash; the many-flounced skirt and lace manta of his women, and their caressing intonations -- the one musical utterance of the whole hard-voiced city.

    Under the Redwoods Bret Harte 1869

  • But fortunately, the Jewish renegades lived and operated in neighborhoods where hundreds of soldiers stood ready and able to protect them—men like “Big” Jack Zelig, “Lefty Louie” Rosenberg, Harry “Gyp the Blood” Horowitz, Joe “the Greaser” Rosenzweig, and the leaders of the notorious Yiddish Black Hand, Jacob “Johnny” Levinsky and “Charley the Cripple” Vitoffsky.

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • Jena Greaser, Colavita Racing Inc., in 1: 06: 54.30 32.

    Equal prize money to Holloway and Tamayo at Boston’s TD Bank Mayor’s Cup 2010

  • Greaser — you know 'm — Campos — commandeered this noon.

    WHOSE BUSINESS IS TO LIVE 2010

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