Entry: simonize (v.)
In context: "'Simonize my baby when I'm gone, Don Doon.'"
Definition: trans. To polish by the application of Simoniz.
Other: Two interesting usages:
1949 A. Miller Death of Salesmani. 17 Remember those days? The way Biff used to simonize that car?
1953 Economist 25 July 258/1, I have heard it said that Harvard University humanises the scientist and simonises the humanist.
SNOOT score: 1
Page: 607
Source: Oxford English Dictionary
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