grease spot

== English == === Noun === grease spot (plural grease spots) (informal) A minute remnant, humorously the only distinguishable remains of an antagonist after a fight. Quoted in 2011, Thomas Christie, Hampton Smith, Brother of Mine: The Civil War Letters of Thomas and William Christie (page 242) [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. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see grease,‎ spot. ==== References ==== John Camden Hotten (1873), The Slang Dictionary