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Answer for the clue "___ and Span (cleaner brand) ", 4 letters:
spic

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Word definitions for spic in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
derogatory for "Latino person," 1913, from cliche protestation, No spick English . Earlier spiggoty (1910 "speak-a the ..."); the term is said to have originated in Panama during the canal construction. But it also was applied from an early date to Italians, ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. completely neat and clean; "the apartment was immaculate"; "in her immaculate white uniform"; "a spick-and-span kitchen"; "their spic red-visored caps" [syn: immaculate , speckless , spick-and-span , spic-and-span , spick , spotless ]

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Southern Petrochemical Industries Corporation Ltd , or SPIC , (, ) is an Indian company that makes petrochemicals . Its core competency is in fertiliser products. It has operations in power , oil and natural gas, pharmaceuticals , and biotechnology applications ...

Usage examples of spic.

I got to open the door to every spic that knocks anytime he wants to cut my balls?

He gave me a name and the place where the bangs out--a spic bar over on Agua Fria.

The guy is a fucking spic from the Bronx, a fucking Puerto Rican with a bankroll.

Cheap stuff, probably Mex-made: spic hairstyles on skinny junkie posers.

You want to find out about some spic in Proctor, you talk to Freddie Santiago, or you go over to San Juan Hill.

Eddie trying to tell them that some big glass boxes and a corkscrew-ramped concrete parking garage are going to bring the shoppers back in spite of all the spic kids roaming around with transistors glued to their ears and knives up their wrists.

This was when he was He had got off with the suspended on shooting the spic in the throat, had met all his obligations, and the was clean.

Half a dozen police cars were in the outside, and uniformed cops were the sidewalks, walkie-talkies in their stopping people and asking them He had never seen so many cops in except that time when he was still living in Harlem, and a spic was holed an apartment in Spanish Harlem, between Park and Madison.

I spoke with a doctor named Perez, a young talkative spic who used to assist her.

His coverage of police activities made the East Los Angeles sheriffs department so unhappy that they soon found themselves in a sort of running private argument with this man Salazar, this Spic who refused to be reasonable.

New Home for Ebb Tide, False Dawn in Aztlan and a Chain of Bull Maggots on the Neck of the Fat Spic from Riverbank.

I was placing the pubes and ribs in a solution of hot water and Spic and Span when Larabee entered, followed by Sheila Jansen.

Bud thought of him and Stens front page smeared: nailed by the spics and their lawyers.

Rabbit turns left on Fifth, past the post office and the Ramada Inn that used to be the Ben Franklin with its grand ballroom, which always makes him think of Mary Ann and her crinolines and the fragrance between her legs, and over to Eisenhower Avenue, above number 1204 where Janice hid out with Charlie that time, and takes an obtuse-angled turn right, heading up through the Hispanic section, which used to be German working-class, across Winter, Spring, and Summer streets with the blinding lights and occasional moving shadow, spics out looking for some kind of a deal, the nights still a little cool to bring out all the street trash, to Locust Boulevard and the front of Brewer High School, a Latin-inscribed Depression monument, ambitious for the common good like something Communists would put up, the whole country close to Communism in the Thirties, people not so selfish then, built the year Harry was born, 1933, and going to outlast him it looks like.

But from all the spics and rock apes he could see running about, Buster had his doubts.