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Meaning of grease spot | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. A minute remnant, humorously the only distinguishable remains of an antagonist after a fight.
    informal
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see grease, spot.

Equivalents

Suomi rasvatahra

Examples

“If you'd come at me with even numbers, I wouldn't leave a grease spot of you.”
“[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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

grease-monkey grease-pot greaseball greaseband greaseboard greasebomb

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