well-oiled

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Adjective

well-oiled (comparative more well-oiled, superlative most well-oiled)

  1. (idiomatic) Efficient; efficiently run.
    Synonyms: businesslike; see also Thesaurus:efficient
    • 2020 August 27, Kevin Roose, “What if Facebook Is the Real ‘Silent Majority’?”, in New York Times‎:
      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.
  2. (idiomatic) Drunk.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:drunk
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