well-oiled
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.10 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
adj
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see well, oiled.
Example Sentences
- "Pro-Trump political influencers have spent years building a well-oiled media machine that swarms around every major news story, creating a torrent of viral commentary that reliably drowns out both the mainstream media and the liberal opposition."
- "Well, in 2000, a pair of well-oiled strangers hit the news and were arrested – after groping each other and undressing on a transatlantic flight – but it’s usually less extreme, as with the couple who were intensely snogging in 2020."
- "Swinging onto the Treherbert branch under the new OLE, the train's onboard Passenger Information Screens announce we have entered a 'no alcohol' zone. That doesn't seem to help, as some of the passengers who joined us earlier seem 'well oiled' already."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
more well-oiled (comparative)
most well-oiled (superlative)