| Stokers had to keep the furnaces fed with coal, while greasers kept the machinery parts well oiled. |
| Johnny and Ponyboy's rescue of the children from the burning church is an opportunity to make heroes out of the greasers. |
| The seamen who steer the ship, lookouts, the firemen in steamers, and greasers in the engine room would also be allocated two watches. |
| Ponyboy Curtis and his brothers, Sodapop and Darry, belong to a group of poor teenage boys called greasers. |
| That evening there is a big fight between the greasers and the Socs, which the greasers win. |
| At dusk, some of the more streetwise black and white birds hang about on the suburb's street corners like 1950s greasers. |
