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Slick   /slɪk/   Listen
Slick

noun
1.
A slippery smoothness.  Synonyms: slickness, slip, slipperiness.
2.
A magazine printed on good quality paper.  Synonyms: glossy, slick magazine.
3.
A film of oil or garbage floating on top of water.
4.
A trowel used to make a surface slick.
adjective
1.
Made slick by e.g. ice or grease.  "Roads are slickest when rain has just started and hasn't had time to wash away the oil"
2.
Having only superficial plausibility.  Synonyms: glib, pat.  "A slick commercial"
3.
Having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light.  Synonyms: satiny, silken, silklike, silky, sleek.  "Satiny gardenia petals" , "Sleek black fur" , "Silken eyelashes" , "Silky skin" , "A silklike fabric" , "Slick seals and otters"
4.
Marked by skill in deception.  Synonyms: crafty, cunning, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily.  "Deep political machinations" , "A foxy scheme" , "A slick evasive answer" , "Sly as a fox" , "Tricky Dick" , "A wily old attorney"
verb
1.
Make slick or smooth.  Synonym: sleek.
2.
Give a smooth and glossy appearance.  Synonyms: sleek down, slick down.



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"Slick" Quotes from Famous Books



... thought, 'this is odd.' But we came pretty quick To a sort of a quad That was all of red brick, And I says to the porter,—'R. Browning: free passes; and kindly look slick.' ...
— Green Bays. Verses and Parodies • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... boys had imagined that adventures for them were a thing of the past. They were willing to take it easy, but this was not to be. Some bad men, including a sharper named Sid Merrick, were responsible for the theft of some freight from the local railroad, and Merrick, by a slick trick, obtained possession of some traction company bonds belonging to Randolph Rover. The Rover boys managed to locate the freight thieves, but Sid Merrick got away from them, dropping a pocketbook containing the traction company bonds in his flight. This was at a time when Dick, Tom and Sam ...
— The Rover Boys on Treasure Isle - or The Strange Cruise of the Steam Yacht. • Edward Stratemeyer (AKA Arthur M. Winfield)
... /v./ (alt. 'pretty-print') 1. To generate 'pretty' human-readable output from a {hairy} internal representation; esp. used for the process of {grind}ing (sense 1) program code, and most esp. for LISP code. 2. To format in some particularly slick and ...
— The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0
... his mind to come to America. He goes to Foy Lee, a slick friend of his, to find out about it. Foy Lee says 'Good thing you see me. Sure. I fix you up. Easy. You want go America? All light. Can do. You got fifteen hundred dollah?' Now where would a poor Chink get fifteen hundred dollars? He tells Foy Lee there ain't that much money in the world. ...
— The Boy Ranchers on Roaring River - or Diamond X and the Chinese Smugglers • Willard F. Baker
... time Laura alighted at the book store, and began to look at the titles of the handsome array of books on the counter. A dapper clerk of perhaps nineteen or twenty years, with hair accurately parted and surprisingly slick, came bustling up and leaned over with a ...
— The Gilded Age, Part 4. • Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) and Charles Dudley Warner


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