Meaning & use
spick
Neat and clean, a word now used only in the fixed phrase "spick and span."
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After the deep clean, the kitchen looked spick and span for the guests.
Grandpa kept his old car spick and span every single weekend.
A note on using this word
"Spick" never appears alone in modern English; it survives only paired with "span" in this one idiomatic expression meaning spotlessly clean.
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