to "spit-shine"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Amazingly not in OED, which lacks the noun as well:

  1967 in Bill Frey _Letters from 'Nam_  (N.Y.: Warner Books, 1992) 23: You wouldn't recognize your spit-shined Paratrooper.

  JL


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