<adj.all> greasy coveralls get rid of rubbish and oily rags
Greasy \Greas"y\, a. [Compar. {Greasier}; superl. {Greasiest}.] 1. Composed of, or characterized by, grease; oily; unctuous; as, a greasy dish.
2. Smeared or defiled with grease.
With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers. --Shak.
3. Like grease or oil; smooth; seemingly unctuous to the touch, as is mineral soapstone.
4. Fat of body; bulky. [R.] --Shak.
5. Gross; indelicate; indecent. [Obs.] --Marston.
6. (Far.) Affected with the disease called {grease}; as, the heels of a horse. See {Grease}, n., 2.
Who knows, if ERM membership does eventually deliver for Britain a more stable manufacturing sector, the country's newly articulate and well-organised engineers might indeed be in a better position to climb the corporate greasy pole.
Many of them bite their nails. Their hair can be quite greasy.
Danny Crocker of Norfolk found the piroshkis a bit greasy, but "so are french fries and I love french fries." In January, McDonald's opened its first franchise in the Soviet Union and is serving up to 50,000 people a day.
Now the world seems suddenly smaller, civilization's reach extended by the greasy fingers of an oil spill.
Instead of the greasy, colorless decor that typifies many British fish and chips places, the Hi-Tide is a large combination restaurant-takeout business refurbished with "Old English" decor of wood beams, exposed brick and lanterns.
Some less greasy fish would probably help.
Irwin has raversed mountaintops and braved blizzards, craved cheeseburgers and greasy french fries, broken a rib and fallen an estimated 3,000 times.
His hands would get so greasy he could no longer button his shirt, he said.
New members of the World Bear Eaters' Association may feel like growling after getting their first taste of the dark, greasy meat.
On the tour, reporters and television crews were offered a mock tank-and-helicopter battle, a session with Soviet grenade launchers and the greasy experience of crawling inside an armored personnel carrier and peering through tiny slits.
Even penguin eggs are too greasy for breakfast. The plants are minuscule lichens.
But a Greek restaurant didn't mind. It bought several pounds of the Letterman veggies and chopped them up for moussaka, which it describes as a "very greasy" casserole.
He said a St. Petersburg, Fla., plastic surgeon "postulated" that "greasy implants" were to blame.