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Spick-and-span

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Adjective

1. bran-new, brand-new, spic-and-span, spick-and-span

conspicuously new

Example Sentences:
'shiny brand-new shoes'
'a spick-and-span novelty'

2. immaculate, speckless, spic, spic-and-span, spick, spick-and-span, spotless

completely neat and clean

Example Sentences:
'the apartment was immaculate'
'in her immaculate white uniform'
'a spick-and-span kitchen'
'their spic red-visored caps'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Spick-and-span

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adjective
extremely neat and clean
The apartment was spick and span.
She had found Ann dusting the furniture, making sure her home was spick and span.
In the mornings she was spick and span, blouse buttoned, lipstick in place, exuding a determined air of efficiency.
He had to keep the loos spick and span.
His task was to keep the place spick and span.
adjective
1. 
extremely neat and clean
2. 
new and fresh

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Spick-and-span

see synonyms of spick-and-span
adjective
1. 
new or fresh
2. 
neat and clean

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Spick-and-span

see synonyms of spick-and-span
adj.
1. Immaculately clean; spotless: "young men in spick-and-span uniforms" (Edith Wharton).
2. Brand-new; fresh.

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