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"text": "Do you think I wanted to walk across that stage and get my diploma and look down and see that fat greaseball sitting there? […] I got into a fraternity, too. It wasn’t one of the good ones, not with a name like Pinzetti, but a fraternity all the same.",
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"(US, slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) A person of Italian descent especially, but also used pejoratively to refer to people of Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, other Mediterranean, or Latin American descent."
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"(slang) A mechanic."
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"A biker, a tough."
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"A rocker or metalhead, especially one who listens to 1950s rock and roll or 1980s thrash metal."
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