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sharp
adjective
stylish, fashionable, attractive US, 1944- I wanted to look sharp but I wanted to feel comfortable too. — Chester Himes, If He Hollers Let Him Go, p. 136, 1945
- The sidewalks were always jammed, big gamblers and racketeers, dressed sharp as a tack, strutted by with their diamond stickpins[.] — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 5, 1946
- All the hip cats on the corner / They don’t look so sharp no mo’. — Jimmy Witherspoon, Skid Row Blues, 1947
- He was always sharp then, proud of his clothes, but now they didn’t seem to matter too much. — Hal Ellson, The Golden Spike, p. 57, 1952
- When it came to personal matters, my mind was strictly on getting “sharp” in my zoot as soon as I left work[.] — Malcolm X and Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, p. 65, 1964
- I came back to “New York” so sharp I was bleeding. — Babs Gonzales, I Paid My Dues, p. 61, 1967
- He’s got three main ambitions–and I happen to think that it’s because he’s in this country that he only has these main three–one is to drink and look sharp[.] — Nathan Heard, Howard Street, p. 160, 1968
- I would dig (deeper than deeply) getting clean once more–not only in the steam-bath sense, but in getting sharp as an Esquire square with a Harlem touch[.] — Eldridge Cleaver, Soul on Ice, p. 19, 1968
- It’s, like, Santa Claus used ta have this really charp chort, man, y’know? — Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong, Santa Calus and his Old Lady, 1971
- We brought in the bread, drank J&B, had the sharp broads. — Edwin Torres, Carlito’s Way, p. 24, 1975
- Sharp as you can look without turning into a nigger. — Saturday Night Fever, 1977
- “I mean, this nigger is sharp!” Elaine said, as I placed the hat on my medium-length, soft natural, then cocked it to the right just a little[.] — Bobby Seale, A Lonely Rage, p. 288, 1978
▶ you are so sharp you’ll cut yourself
used to note someone’s (over-) cleverness, also to reprove someone for that over-cleverness; especially implying a sharp-tongued cleverness UK, 1910- Written in Keyes’ sparky, so sharp-you’ll-cut-yourself style ... with plenty of heart, lots of laughs and a fantastic twist in the tale. — Cosmopolitan’s’ review of “Sushi for Beginners” by Marian Keyes, 2000
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