greasebomb

English

Etymology

grease +‎ bomb

Pronunciation

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Noun

greasebomb (plural greasebombs)

1. (slang) A greasy or fatty food item.
   • 1992, Tela Goodwin Mange, "A Fast-food World", Texas Alcalde, November/December 1992:

     Kopriva suggests that you look for a place that sells grilled hamburgers rather than the "greasebombs" that are cooked in their own grease.

   • 1995 March, Randall Shirley, “Birth of the French Fry”, in Orange Coast Magazine:

     They're the greasebombs you can't refuse. Those little fat-sponges with starch and salt attached.

   • 2001, Christopher Nash, The Unravelling of the Postmodern Mind, Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN, page 152:

     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), […]

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