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white-glove

white-glove adjective: scrupulous, painstaking, meticulous.

Adjective

white-glove (comparative more white-glove, superlative most white-glove)

  1. Scrupulous, painstaking, meticulous.
    • a white-glove inspection
    • Begin with the mass People's Riots at Stonewall. Segue into the hi-energy yet amorphous crisis-wracked Gay Liberation Front. Which clones into the Gay Activists Alliance, structured, single-issued, committee-heavy. When even this proved too unwieldy for an elite who wanted a more upscale machine...1981 August 15, John Mitzel, “Meetings and Mayhem, History and Hype”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 5, page 13

Forms of white-glove

comparativemore white-glove
superlativemost white-glove

Phrases with white-glove

Questions about white-glove

What does white-glove mean?
White-glove means scrupulous, painstaking, meticulous.
What part of speech is white-glove?
White-glove is an adjective.

Words near white-glove in the dictionary

  1. white-fronted tit
  2. white-fronted tits
  3. white-gaped honeyeater
  4. white-gaped honeyeaters
  5. white-girl wasted
  6. white-glove
  7. white-glove building
  8. white-glove buildings
  9. white-glove service
  10. white-glove services
  11. white-glove test

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