well-oiled

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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

   • 2024 April 9, “In-flight canoodling: is it ever acceptable to spoon at 40,000ft?”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     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.

• (drunk): Tony Thorne (2014) “well-oiled”, in Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, 4th edition, London,  […]: Bloomsbury
• Jonathon Green (2024) “well-oiled adj.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang