• Look up greaser in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Greaser or Greasers may refer to: Greaser (subculture), a subculture that developed in North America...
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    Greasers are a youth subculture that emerged in the 1950s and early 1960s from predominantly working class and lower-class teenagers and young adults in...
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  • and the Greasers (1910), The Greaser's Gauntlet (1908),Tony, the Greaser (1911), The Greaser and the Weakling (1912), The Girl and the Greaser (1913),...
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  • White Americans divided by their socioeconomic status: the working-class "Greasers" and the upper-middle-class "Socs" (pronounced /ˈsoʊʃɪz/ SOH-shiz—short...
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  • Greaser's Palace is a 1972 American Western film written and directed by Robert Downey Sr. It stars Allan Arbus as Jesse, a man with amnesia who heals...
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  • The Anti-Vagrancy Act, also known as the Greaser Act, was enacted in 1855 in California, by legalizing the arrest of those perceived as violating its...
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  • CatDog (redirect from The Greaser Dogs)
    Feltbottom (voiced by Tom Kenny), a male bulldog and the leader of the Greaser Dogs. Shriek Dubois (voiced by Maria Bamford), a female poodle. Lube (voiced...
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  • The Girl and the Greaser is a 1913 American silent short film directed by Allan Dwan starring Charlotte Burton, J. Warren Kerrigan, Louise Lester, George...
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  • Donna King as Girl Greaser (lead dancer) Lucinda Dickey as Girl Greaser Ivy Austin as Girl Greaser 'Francine' Andy Tennant as Boy Greaser 'Artie' (Arnold...
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  • writer, editor, publisher, and distributor. He is known for such titles as Greaser Comics, Forbidden Knowledge, and Cocaine Comix, collaborating with artists...
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    rival gangs divided by their socioeconomic status: the working-class "Greasers" and the upper-middle-class "Socs" (pronounced /ˈsoʊʃɪz/ SOH-shiz—short...
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  • The Lords of Flatbush (category Greasers (subculture))
    “Sha Na Na’’, was part of a resurgence in popular interest in the '50s greaser culture in the 1970s. Set in 1958, the coming of age story follows four...
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    'n' roll music. By 1965, the term greaser had also been introduced to Great Britain and, since then, the terms greaser and rocker have become synonymous...
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    Sha Na Na, and game show host. Bauman's Sha Na Na character Bowzer was a greaser in a muscle shirt. Bauman was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Polish-German...
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  • the affluent "Socs" and the poorer greasers. The "Socs" harass and assault Ponyboy until some of his fellow greasers chase them off. He and his friend...
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  • same name by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey. The film depicts the lives of greaser Danny Zuko (John Travolta) and Australian transfer student Sandy Olsson...
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    The Greaser Petroglyph Site is located on land managed by the Bureau of Land Management in eastern Lake County, Oregon. The designs were scraped into...
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    Pompadour (hairstyle) (category Greasers (subculture))
    roll, Rocker, Greaser, or simply "the Elvis cut"). During this era, the hairstyle had become a staple of greaser subculture and greaser gangs, especially...
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  • Grease (musical) (category Greasers (subculture))
    after the 1950s United States working-class youth subculture known as greasers and set in 1959 at the fictional Rydell High School in Northwest Chicago...
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  • Joseph "Joe The Greaser" Rosenzweig (17 April 1890 – ), also known as Joe Rosen, was an American New York City labor racketeer in the early 1900s as an...
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  • their can, but he introduces Dodger to each of them: Greaser Greg, a leather jacket-wearing greaser with a violent attitude; Messy Tessie, a girl with a...
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    Park in 1961. He moved into big-budget filmmaking with the surrealistic Greaser's Palace (1972). His last film was Rittenhouse Square (2005), a documentary...
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  • Academics say that it is the most prominent anti-Mexican slur, having replaced greaser after the 1950s. It can resonate with the xenophobic sentiment that "you’re...
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    were legal residents. Similarly, the 1855 Greaser Act was so-known based on the anti-Mexican slur "greaser". One of the biggest problems caused by the...
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    Fonzie (category Greasers (subculture))
    the invented put-down, "Sit on it". The character was a stereotypical greaser who was frequently seen on his motorcycle, wore a leather jacket, and typified...
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  • The Greaser's Gauntlet is a 1908 American silent short adventure film directed by D. W. Griffith. It was released by the Biograph Company and copyrighted...
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    Howell played the lead role of Ponyboy Curtis, "the soulful tagalong greaser through whose eyes we see the events of the 1960s-set film unfold." Based...
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  • Italians, greaser has been more often applied to Hispanic Americans or Mexican Americans. However, greaseball (and to a lesser extent, greaser) can also...
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  • Beaner (Mexicans) Canuck (Canadians) Cholo (Mestizos) Coonass (Cajuns) Greaser Gusano (Cubans) Half-breed Naco Newfie (Newfoundlander) Okie (Oklahomans)...
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  • Transformers: Generation 1 (also known as Generation One or G1) is a toy line from 1984 to 1990, produced by Hasbro and Takara Tomy. Based on the successful...
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