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greasebomb en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Etymology

From grease + bomb.

Meanings

  1. (slang) A greasy or fatty food item.
    • The fashion inspires our cuisine; it's not only in Los Angeles, now, that you can eat a pastrami burrito (a greasebomb made of fried pastrami, fried peppers, fried cabbage, guava jelly, pickles, onions, wrapped in a burrito), […] 2001, Christopher Nash, The Unravelling of the Postmodern Mind, Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN, page 152:
    • Kopriva suggests that you look for a place that sells grilled hamburgers rather than the "greasebombs" that are cooked in their own grease. 1992, Tela Goodwin Mange, "A Fast-food World", Texas Alcalde, November/December 1992
    • They're the greasebombs you can't refuse. Those little fat-sponges with starch and salt attached. 1995 March, Randall Shirley, “Birth of the French Fry”, in Orange Coast Magazine:

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