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"Slicker" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... 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 |
Words linked to "Slicker" : charlatan, shammer, chiseler, imposter, impostor, mack, faker, sandbagger, dissembler, wrongdoer, grifter, fake, fortune hunter, finagler, prevaricator, wangler, mackintosh, front, chiseller, swindler, defalcator, mountebank, phony, peculator, embezzler, city boy, four-flusher, pretender, cheat, scammer, slyboots, oilskin, nominal head, trickster, straw man, hypocrite, pseud, defrauder, dodger, role player, beguiler |
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