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Slicked up

adjective

Having been made especially tidy.

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"Slicked up" Quotes from Famous Books

... fine-looking boy, George, when you're slicked up," she said. "Now bow your head until we say grace! There, now pitch in and tell me how ...

— The Black Creek Stopping-House • Nellie McClung

... mirror," he said. "Well, you look pretty well slicked up. What happened last night seems to ...

— The Trail Horde • Charles Alden Seltzer

... it was my saying "Germans" to him that explained it, but his sleepiness seemed suddenly to have disappeared, so he asked for the chance to wash and shave; and half an hour later he came down all slicked up and spruce, with a very visible intention of paying court to the lady of the house. Irish, you see,—white hairs no obstacle. I could not help laughing. "Hoity-toity," I said to myself, "I am getting all kinds ...

— A Hilltop on the Marne • Mildred Aldrich

... Barby; "I give her some o' them cold biscuit and butter and cheese, and a pitcher of milk sot a good enough meal for anybody; but she didn't take but a crumb, and she turned up her nose at that. Come, go! you've slicked up enough; you're handsome enough to show yourself to her any time o' day, for all her ...

— Queechy, Volume II • Elizabeth Wetherell