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ace
adjective
exceptional, expert, excellent US, 1930- I am glad that the newspaper boys, who later liked to refer to me as an ace narcotic inspector, never heard the story of my first big pinch. — William J. Spillard and Pence James, Needle in a Haystack, p. 7, 1945
- Sy Oliver on trumpet (now Tommy Dorsey’s ace arranger, who was then playing and arranging with Jimmy Lun ceford’s band[.] — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, pp. 285–286, 1946
- I became an ace young reporter for the Cincinnati Post and Times-Star. — Jerry Rubin, Do It!, p. 12, 1970
- Here he clowns for the camera with an ace Melbourne sporting identity. — Barry Humphries, Les Patterson’s Australia, p. 24, 1978
- As a shag she might score zero, but she’s ace at washing, ironing and keeping a man’s tucker warm. — Barry Humphries, The Traveller’s Tool, p. 25, 1985
- One of my ace informants tells me to see a guy at Charity in there with a gunshot wound he says was from a hunting accident. — Elmore Leonard, Bandits, p. 139, 1987
- The feel uv her arse squashin on me legs is ace an starts me knob stirrin in me jeans. — Niall Griffiths, Grits, p. 11, 2000
- Most of the coppers I worked with at street level are ace guys[.] — Duncan MacLaughlin, The Filth, p. 11, 2002
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