different between rockabilly vs greaser

English

Etymology

Blend of rock +? hillbilly

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???k??b?li/
• (US) IPA^(key): /????k??b?li/

Noun

rockabilly (countable and uncountable, plural rockabillies or rockabillys)

1. (uncountable, music) A genre of music originating from the South (United States) and mixing elements of rock, blues, country, hillbilly boogie and bluegrass music.
2. (countable) A member of the subculture associated with rockabilly music.

Derived terms

Spanish

Noun

rockabilly m (plural rockabillys)

1. rockabilly

English

Etymology

grease +? -er. Applied to mechanics because they frequently become greasy during the course of their work. Applied to toughs because they frequently greased their hair, and, like greaseball, to Italians for the same reason. Applied to Mexicans because, at the time the phrase originated, they commonly worked greasing the axles of carts.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -i?s?(r)

Noun

greaser (plural greasers)

1. Someone or something that greases (applies grease).
   • 1942, Emily Carr, The Book of Small, “Regatta,” [1]

     The pole was greased and men tried to walk out to the end of it and dislodge the crate. The pole was supple, the crate swayed as each man crept out clinging desperately and finally fell off into the sea. […] People roared with laughter and greasers applied fresh grease for the next person's try.
2. (slang) A mechanic.
3. (slang) A biker, a tough.
4. (slang) A rocker or metalhead, especially one who listens to 1950s rock and roll or 1980s thrash metal.
5. (US, offensive, ethnic slur) A Latin American, especially a Mexican.
6. (US, offensive, ethnic slur) An Italian.
7. (US, offensive, ethnic slur) A Greek.

Derived terms

• flange greaser

Translations

See also

• bodgie

Anagrams

• Greears, agreers, regears, rerages