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You smooth figure! (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

thousand

'figure' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'you smooth' is the wordplay.
'you' becomes 'thou' (historical second person pronoun).
'smooth' becomes 'sand' (sanding is a kind of smoothing).
'thou'+'sand'='THOUSAND'

(Other definitions for thousand that I've seen before include "in MCC, but missing double century" , "Cardinal" , "a fair amount?" , "quite a lot" , "See 19 Across" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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