spick Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun (ethnic slur) offensive term for persons of Latin American descent
    spic; spik.
  2. adjective satellite completely neat and clean
    speckless; spick-and-span; spic-and-span; spic; spotless; immaculate.
    • the apartment was immaculate
    • in her immaculate white uniform
    • a spick-and-span kitchen
    • their spic red-visored caps

WordNet


Spick noun
Etymology
Cf. Sw. spik. See Spike a nail.
Definitions
  1. A spike or nail. Prov. Eng. now hypehnated, and more commonly meaning spotlessly clean Howell.

Webster 1913