grease spot

noun

A minute remnant, humorously the only distinguishable remains of an antagonist after a fight.

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Meanings

noungrease spot (plural grease spots)

plural grease spots

  1. informalA 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
    1 more example

    [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.
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APA

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Chicago

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