What does the word "treat" mean? [closed]
From the U.K. band Kasabian's song "Treat", there's a lyric like this:
Everybody knows I work it work it like a treat
What's the meaning of the word treat in that phrase?
Solution 1:
OP's citation is a mash-up of two well-established usages...
1a: "it worked a treat" (5230 hits in Google Books, primarily BrE)
and
1b: "it worked like a charm" (86300 hits)
For comparison, these are the "non-standard" versions...
2a: "it worked like a treat" (57 hits)
and
2b: "it worked a charm" (145 hits)
The meaning is given by OED's definition 5b...
a treat (adv.adj.)
so as to gratify highly; extremely well;
also (gen. or ironically) extremely, excessively.
colloquial
...where I've highlighted the most likely substitution appropriate for less colloquial contexts.
Solution 2:
"I work it like a treat," is equivalent to, "I do it well"