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Definition of Slicked up
1. Adjective. Having been made especially tidy. "Slicked up for visitors"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slicked Up
Literary usage of Slicked up
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Atlantic Monthly by Making of America Project (1867)
"says I. " ' It looks more slicked up than ever it used to,' says he. " ' Yes,'
says I ; ' and you Ml find everything else on the place slicked up in about ..."
2. Short Story Classics (American) by William Henry Harrison Murray, Robert Grant, Virginia Tracy, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Robert William Chambers, George Ade, John Habberton, Hallie Erminie Rives, Charles Heber Clark, William Patten, Maragaret Wade Campbell Deland (1905)
"says I. " 'It looks more slicked up than ever it used to,' says he. " 'Yes,' says
I; 'and you'll find everything else on the place slicked up in about the ..."
3. Greatest Short Stories (1915)
"says I. " 'It looks more slicked up than ever it used to,' says he. " 'Yes,' says
I; 'and you'll find everything else on the place slicked up in about the ..."
4. Greatest Short Stories (1915)
"says I. " 'It looks more slicked up than ever it used to,' says he. " 'Yes,' says
I; 'and you'll find everything else on the place slicked up in about the ..."
5. Dictionary of Americanisms. by John Russell Bartlett (1877)
"Mrs. Flyer was slicked up for the occasion, in the snuff-colored »ilk she wu ...
The house was all slicked up as neat as a pin, and the things in every room ..."
6. Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded by John Russell Bartlett (1859)
"Mrs. Flyer was slicked up for the occasion, in the snuff-colored silk she ...
The house was all slicked up as neat as a pin, and the things in every room ..."
7. The Library of Choice Literature and Encyclopædia of Universal Authorship edited by Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon (1893)
"'Yes,' says I; 'and you'll find everything else on the place slicked up in about
the same way.' " 'Where's Dave?' says he. " ' Dave has gone to town to see ..."
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