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Spic-and-span

Definition: Spic-and-span

Spic-and-span

Adjective

1. Conspicuously new; "shiny brand-new shoes"; "a spick-and-span novelty".

2. Completely neat and clean; "the apartment was immaculate"; "in her immaculate white uniform"; "a spick-and-span kitchen"; "their spic red-visored caps".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Spic-and-span

Synonyms: brand-new (adj), bran-new (adj), immaculate (adj), speckless (adj), spic (adj), spick (adj), spick-and-span (adj), spotless (adj). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Spic-and-span

DomainTitle

Books

  • The All-Around, Upstairs-Downstairs, Indoors-Outdoors, Garage-To-Living Room, Spic-And-Span, Shiny-Bright, Car-To-Couch, Diamond-To-Doorknob, Super-hy (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: Spic-and-span

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-i-n-n-p-p-s-s"

-3 letters: scandias.

-4 letters: capsids, inspans, paisans, pandani, papains, scandia.

-5 letters: asdics, aspics, canids, cannas, capias, capsid, cassia, dipsas, inspan, naiads, nicads, paisan, paisas, pandas, panics, papain, pinnas, spicas.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

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Alternative Orthography: Spic-and-span


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 70 69 63 2D 61 6E 64 2D 73 70 61 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01110000 01101001 01100011 00101101 01100001 01101110 01100100 00101101 01110011 01110000 01100001 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#112 &#105 &#99 &#45 &#97 &#110 &#100 &#45 &#115 &#112 &#97 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0070 0069 0063 002D 0061 006E 0064 002D 0073 0070 0061 006E

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

53827569156780701585826780

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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