In addition to American Greasers and British Rockers, there are also other foreign takes on the greaser subculture. Greasers began to fade out in the latter half of the 1960s and were pretty much gone by the mid-1970s. Many greasers formed street gangs, although the culture existed outside of gang life as well. (This is the core reason that a lot of greasers in fiction tend to have either Irish or Italian surnames, such as Arthur Fonzarelli or Dally Winston.) The trend was big in the 1950s and most common in the Northeast, Midwest, Southwest, California and even parts of the upper South like in Maryland and Virginia that had sizable ethnic communities or contact with such. Most greasers were working-class or lower-class, often coming from an Irish, Italian or Latino note This use of the word "greaser" is probably not related to the earlier use of the word in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the Southwestern USA as an anti-Mexican ethnic slur. Greasers were a common subculture of the 1950s and early 1960s, known for their rebellious attitude and love of Rockabilly music. Greasers, also known as Rockers, Ton-Up Boys, and Hoods.
The kids with slicked-back hair, leather jackets, and blue jeans, who listen to Rock & Roll and Rockabilly, drive fast cars (often souped-up 1930s hot rods or 1950s Corvettes or T-Birds), ride motorcycles, drink, sometimes gamble and smoke cigarettes. You've seen them in nearly every work set in The '50s, and to a lesser extent, early-middle of The '60s and very early Seventies.
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