fillip
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- n anything that tends to arouse
his approval was an added fillip
- An orderly, fair election in Nigeria would give a mighty fillip to the democratic project in Africa.
- The responsible British press paid little heed, but, as is often the case in British royal family matters, the gossip got an added fillip from a big play in New York's tabloid .
- Wide World is a rotating sequence of four formatsa week each of Jack Paar, Dick Cavett, comedy and mystery, with two nights of rock music thrown in as a fillip.