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Definition of Slick up

1. Verb. Make neat, smart, or trim. "Titivate the child"

2. Verb. Dress and groom with particular care, as for a special occasion. "He spruced up for the party"

Lexicographical Neighbors of Slick Up

sliceable sliced sliced and diced sliced bread slicer slicers slices slices and dices slicing slicing and dicing

slicings slick slick back slick down slick magazine slick up (current term) slicked slicked-back slicked up slicken

slickened slickener slickeners slickening slickens slickenside slickensides slicker slickers slickest

Literary usage of Slick up

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Sessional Papers by Ontario Legislative Assembly (1904)
"You slick up your hair, and put on your best ... Now. when you go to milk the cow, slick up, and make the cow under; tand you are proud of her, ..."

2. Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded by John Russell Bartlett (1860)
"94. SLICK AS GREASE. Another classical expression, conveying the same idea as the foregoing; sometimes varied into slick as iie (oil). To slick up. ..."

3. Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded by John Russell Bartlett (1859)
"To slick up. To make sleek ; to make fine. Mrs. Flyer was slicked up for the occasion, in the snuff-colored silk she was married in. ..."

4. The Modern English Verb-adverb Combination by Arthur Garfield Kennedy (1920)
"... scuff up, shape up, shine up, skin up, slash up, slick up, slosh up, smear up, smell up, smoke up, smooth up, snarl up, sober up, spatter up, splash up, ..."

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