The song is simply mixing vocabulary from cars with some kind of sexy innuendo. I supposed that "4-barrel quads" here may refer to some kind of sophisticated car engine with 4 camshafts, making it especially powerful.įUEL INJECTOR= A device in the engine that injects fuel into the combustion chamber, making it faster and more powerful.ĬUTOFFS= Shorts made by cutting the legs off a pair of trousers, especially jeans, especially when used by girls ( see picture). Gun with 4 barrels (the tube shape part of a gun). QUADS= (informal or slang word used for some things with 4 parts) Quadriceps muscles Term referring to a 4x4 dirt ATV (all terrain vehicle). Also, in a gym, a lifter is a machinery used to lift weight up by pulling down and develops your triceps and shoulders. LIFTERS= A piece of machinery used to lift things or people up. OVERHEAD= Something overhead is higher than your head.
#Words of grease lightning movie#
The name of this movie is GREASE, but meaning a kind of greasy shiny gel used to sculpt your hair and make it stiff and wet-looking (like John Travolta's hairstyle in this movie), and this song uses the word "grease" with the more normal meaning of greasy oil. If you grease a car engine with car oil it will work better and the car will go faster, so a greased car goes better and faster ( see pictures of grease). GREASED is something that has been covered in grease. If you say that a car is lightning, you mean that it is really really fast (fast as lightning). GREASED LIGHTNING= Lightning is the visible flash of light accompanying a thunder in an electric storm ( see picture). WHY= An expression of surprise or shock similar to "oh yea" or simply "oh".
The magnitude of the accomplishment is illustrated by the fact that it was the only automatic transmission produced solely by an independent automaker with no outside help. ULTRAMATIC= Packard's Ultramatic transmission was the creation of the company's chief engineer Forest McFarland and his engineering team. (see "systematic" above), but it makes us think of water (hydro) and automatic. They only use this word here because it ends in "-atic" and rhymes with the following ones, but none of them can be applied to a car, they simply sound complicated and sophisticated, like this car. SYSTEMATIC= Having, showing, or involving a system, method, or plan. Lightning, lightning, lightning, lightning, lightni.in' You know that I ain't bragging, she's a real pussy wagon With new pistons, plugs and shocks I can get off my rocks Purple frenched taillights and thirty inch fins, oh yeahĪ Palomino dashboard and dual muffler twins, oh yeah You are supreme, the chicks'll cream for greased lightning Go greased lightning, you're coasting through the heat lap trials (Greased lightning, go greased lightning) Go greased lightning, you're burning up the quarter mile ( Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go) You know that ain't no s*t, we'll be getting lots of t*t in Greased Lightning With a four-speed on the floor, they'll be waiting at the door
(I'll get the money, I'll see you get the money) We'll get some overhead lifters and four barrel quads, oh yeahįuel injection cutoffs and chrome plated rods, oh yeah 1.Well, this car could be systematic, hydromatic, ultramatic Yet, beware: You’re definitely going to have flashbacks of singing these songs in front of your parents, and be forever unable to face them again. These 10 classics are just downright dirty. Hidden meanings in songs can range from the absurd to the cryptic - but don’t worry, there’s no “Hail Satan” here. It leaves you thinking, "Wait, what do you mean it wasn't just a song about a girl named Eileen? How could someone do this to me?!” I guess Freud was right after all everything really is just about sex. On the other hand, it becomes shocking to look back on some classic tracks and find more double entendres than you can count on your fingers.
#Words of grease lightning free#
We can just be free to enjoy The Weeknd in all his glory. On the one hand, it’s great to think that we don't have to go all "Greased Lightning" and try to make a sexual metaphor out of everything. Some 12-year-old just covered “Trap Queen” like it was no big deal.
We can listen to Nicki Minaj rap about “making it drip” and carry on about our day unfazed - enlightened, really. When you consider everything else we get exposed to, dirty song lyrics are no surprise in this day and age.
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