Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. Offensive Slang Variant of spic.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. A Latino/Hispanic person.
- n. nail, a spike (slender piece of wood or metal, used as a fastener).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. A spike or nail.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A spike; a tenter.
- n. A titmouse.
- n. See spick-and-span-new.
- An abbreviation of spick-and-span-new.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adj. completely neat and clean
- n. (ethnic slur) offensive term for persons of Latin American descent
Etymologies
Examples
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"I 'ave just come wiz ze Captain to see everyting ees what you call spick," she said on leaving us.
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"Mrs. Prentice's house is all freshly done over, and has a heater, which this house hasn't, and everything is in spick and span order."
The Girls of Central High on the Stage: or, The Play That Took the Prize
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It was the personification of the old term spick and span.
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But there were ower mony great folks dipped in the same doings, to mak a spick and span new warld.
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The word "spick", referring to Latinos, is not and they suggest it is such an inciter it makes Latinos blood boil.
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The word "spick", referring to Latinos, is not and they suggest as inciter it makes Latino's blood boil.
TONIGHT ON THE TERRORDOME: Lies and Truth about Afrikans in America
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Des von bladet : I *always* wondered what "spick" and "span" meant on their own, honnest !
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They were kept very much as she was accustomed to have them, but there was that something of bareness about them, and a kind of spick-and-spanness conveying a sense of emptiness and desertion which strikes cold to the heart when it comes of the absence of someone dear.
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It is possible that neither word has any virtue without the other, as is the case with "spick" and "span."
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Because anyone who has ever heard their mom called a "spick" or a "nigger" or "wetback" or a "guinea" is cringing with all they have right now.
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