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Slicker   /slˈɪkər/   Listen
Slicker

noun
1.
A macintosh made from cotton fabric treated with oil and pigment to make it waterproof.  Synonym: oilskin.
2.
A person with good manners and stylish clothing.
3.
Someone who leads you to believe something that is not true.  Synonyms: beguiler, cheat, cheater, deceiver, trickster.


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"



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"Slicker" Quotes from Famous Books



... Go home; put your horse to bed," cried Gibault, glancing at the Yankee's steed in contempt. "Dis is de von as vill do it more slicker ...
— The Wild Man of the West - A Tale of the Rocky Mountains • R.M. Ballantyne
... was tied to the rack. He walked into the house and brought out his roll of blankets that he never took with him except on long rides, and his "slicker," and his longest stake-rope of plaited raw-hide. These he began to tie deliberately upon his saddle. Santa, a little pale, ...
— Heart of the West • O. Henry
... the locoed one," rejoined Lem. "Buster Jack knows what he's doin'. He can play a slicker hand of poker ...
— The Mysterious Rider • Zane Grey
... he could see the rows and rows of jet fighters, wings up in the foggy rain, poised like ridiculous birds in the darkness. With a sigh he ripped the sheet of paper from the small, battered portable typewriter on his lap, and zipped the machine up in its slicker case. ...
— Bear Trap • Alan Edward Nourse
... lives for money and the power it hands him. Well? This is how I figger. Just how you played him up I can't say. But it's his job to juggle around with figgers same as it's yours, and if you beat him out of ten million dollars you must have played a slicker hand than him. All of which says you must have got more to windward of the law than him—and he knows it. Why, it's easy. The feller who has the money power to hold the crown jewels of Sweden from falling into the hands of yahoo politicians ...
— The Man in the Twilight • Ridgwell Cullum
... have done that slicker!" commented Ephraim, in surprise. For, behold! his arms were empty and the flash of twinkling legs along the garden path pointed whither his charges had fled. "Here they were and here they aren't, and whatever scared them that way is ...
— Jessica, the Heiress • Evelyn Raymond
... licked the flap on the envelope, sealed it shut, stuck some stamps on the front, and scrawled "AIR MAIL" under the stamps. He dropped the letter into the "STATESIDE" slot. The exam hadn't been so bad. What did they think he was, anyway? A city slicker who had never seen a live cow in his life? He ambled into the off-duty pilots' lounge. He had an hour to kill before going on watch, and this was as good a place as any to kill it. The lounge was almost empty. Most of the pilots must have been asleep. ...
— Pushbutton War • Joseph P. Martino
... got Sim beat ten blocks," he resumed. "The way you threw your top-coat up made Sim look like a last year's made-over. I never set eyes on a dry-goods clerk as could fix a package slicker. I'll have a lil something ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, June 9, 1920 • Various


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