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neat
adjective- pleasing, very good US, 1936
Found as early as 1808, rejected late in the C19, and then returned to favour in the 1930s. Still heard; inescapably HOKEY. Considered as an Americanism in the UK but used by teenagers without irony. - “Hi,” I answered. “That’s a neat board.” — Frederick Kohner, Gidget, p. 27, 1957
- I was up there the other day, it’s really a neat scene. — Gurney Norman, Divine Right’s Trip (Last Whole Earth Catalog), p. 159, 1971
- There’s Kip Pullman. He’s so neat. — American Graffiti, 1973
- I hate to tell yuh, this is nineteen seventy-five, you know that “neat” went out, I would say, at the turn of the century. — Annie Hall, 1977
- It’s kinda neat to order a cocktail where there’s a tablecloth and a flower and a candle on the table, right? — Joseph Wambaugh, Finnegan’s Week, p. 204, 1993
- We’re having like a really neat open house today from like four to whenever if you care to stop by. — Sleepless in Seattle, 1993
- It was neat that I could see the DJ[.] — Ben Malbon, Cool Places, p. 278, 1998
- (used of an alcoholic drink) served without ice or water UK, 1579
- He sweated in his shirts till the backs were rotted through, and drank his whiskey neat[.] — John Clellon Holmes, The Horn, p. 44, 1958
- He had taken his first drink neat. Now he poured another, dropped ice into it, sat back and smiled at her. — John A. Williams, Sissie, p. 24, 1963
- Buster was trying to look jaunty but his hands were shaking. “Gimme a Johnny Blc,” he said. “Neat.” — Joseph Wambaugh, The Golden Orange, p. 49, 1990
- He felt warm inside, a nice buzz warming his belly, filled with three straight neat gins and an ice-cold Guinness stout. — Odie Hawkins, Midnight, p. 84, 1995
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