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- noun US A person compulsively
obsessed withcleanliness .
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Examples
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I have total neat-freak friends, whose houses look like magazine photos.
Good Housekeeping: Totally Slobtastic Slackermom Edition | Her Bad Mother 2009
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While the entire home is immaculate, his neat-freak tendencies are most apparent in his office.
Obsessive-Compulsive Design Juliet Chung 2011
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Michal Czerwonka for The Wall Street Journal While the entire home is immaculate, it's in Mr. Leight's office where his neat-freak tendencies are most apparent.
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This time, three couples compete for the plaque declaring them best hosts, with neat-freak Debbie demonstrating her special talent for spotting stray pubes in the shower and local busybody Frances putting on a show at breakfast she's even got homemade yoghurt.
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I have total neat-freak friends, whose houses look like magazine photos.
Good Housekeeping: Totally Slobtastic Slackermom Edition 2009
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Kelly: A couple of profiles of you I have read have painted you as a neat-freak who can't help but write perfectly thought out and tidy novels.
Interview with Chris Bohjalian, Author of Skeletons at the Feast 2008
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Then again, I harbor the hope that even after we're not showing anymore I'll retain my neat-freak habits and my next house will always be pristine ...
There's always something happening and it's usually quite loud Lisa B. 2008
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I am, as I noted in a comment to Prof. Mama's post, an organization - and neat-freak.
Housekeeping 2006
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This may not seem deeply pathological to you, but trust me [or trust my mom, or some of my neat-freak friends], I am not by nature a compulsively clutter-free person.
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Then again, I harbor the hope that even after we're not showing anymore I'll retain my neat-freak habits and my next house will always be pristine ...
Archive 2008-03-01 Lisa B. 2008
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