Word Study
spick-and-span
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective spick-and-span has 2 senses
- spick-and-span(s = adj.all) bran-new, brand-new, spic-and-span - conspicuously new; "shiny brand-new shoes"; "a spick-and-span novelty"
- spick-and-span(s = adj.all) immaculate, speckless, spic, spic-and-span, spick, spotless - completely neat and clean; "the apartment was immaculate"; "in her immaculate white uniform"; "a spick-and-span kitchen"; "their spic red-visored caps"
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