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well-oiled

[wel-oild]

adjective

  1. operating with efficiency.

    a well-oiled department.

  2. Slang.drunk.



well-oiled

adjective

  1. informal(well oiled when postpositive) drunk

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of well-oiled1

First recorded in 1730–40
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Well-oiled South African fans had filtered out of Lord's yesterday evening buoyantly going through their repertoire of songs after a blissful day of batting.

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In a recent report on Trump’s first 100 days in office, Michael Sozan and Ben Olinsky of the liberal Center for American Progress wrote that Trump has “waged a forceful and well-oiled effort with lightning speed to achieve — and even surpass — the ‘Second American Revolution’ envisioned by the authors of Project 2025.”

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For most of the approximately 70 million Americans who receive benefits, Social Security has operated like a well-oiled machine, as it has for most of the 90 years of its existence.

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In Chicago, Boystown — with its mix of cocktail lounges, gay bars, nightclubs, parades and drag brunches — has become a well-oiled machine for queer culture in the city.

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And still, Democrats and other progressives could hardly be credited with running a cohesive, well-oiled resistance movement.

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