Meaning

simple past and past participle of spiff.

Definitions by Sense

1. simple past and past participle of spiff
2. (slang) Intoxicated.
3. Neat, attractive, in good condition; spiffed up.
4. Having an associated spiff for selling.

Example Sentences

“He said you got a little spiffed together.” “Love that George,” she said. “I'm getting a little spiffed again.

He said to me: "Ed Hickey is a little spiffed this evening, or could I be mistaken?"

She got spiffed at the preview dinner and told some people...she said I was HIV positive, that I was one of those Typhoid Marys who looked perfectly healthy but was the kiss of death.

Hunt Wilford again at his peak, years past on the run, and Clyde Bowles happy for once at the prom, all spiffed in his dinner jacket, beaming hope.

But now, when we drove down to the harbor where the open sky and sea awaited us in the pale early morning sunlight—there she was, our dream boat, all spiffed, ready and waiting to take us wherever we wanted to go.

“Found that spiffed overcoat, have you?” Sanders said, chuckling. “Well, the man that sells it ought to have fifty dollars.”

In short, what $ 35,000-a-year sales person with an apartment and a car payment let alone a mortgage and a family can avoid pushing a "spiffed" item that translates into a colder, harder cash commission ?

Word Forms

• more spiffed
• most spiffed

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