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grease spot

grease spot noun: a minute remnant, humorously the only distinguishable remains of an antagonist after a fight.

Noun

grease spot (plural grease spots)

  1. (informal) A minute remnant, humorously the only distinguishable remains of an antagonist after a fight.
    • If you'd come at me with even numbers, I wouldn't leave a grease spot of you.1866, Israel Gibbons, Crescent-shine, page 108
    • [W]hole Brigades of theirs were "wiped out," there being hardly a grease spot left of the Kentucky Brigade, which were the ones I saw fight.Quoted in 2011, Thomas Christie, Hampton Smith, Brother of Mine: The Civil War Letters of Thomas and William Christie (page 242)
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see grease, spot.

Forms of grease spot

pluralgrease spots

Questions about grease spot

What does grease spot mean?
Grease spot means a minute remnant, humorously the only distinguishable remains of an antagonist after a fight.
What part of speech is grease spot?
Grease spot is a noun.
What is the plural of grease spot?
The plural of grease spot is grease spots.

Words near grease spot in the dictionary

  1. grease pit
  2. grease pits
  3. grease pot
  4. grease pots
  5. grease someone's palm
  6. grease spot
  7. grease spots
  8. grease the skids
  9. grease the wheels
  10. grease up
  11. grease-monkey

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