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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.



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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


Words linked to "Slicker" :   nominal head, pretender, dodger, mountebank, pseudo, double-dealer, fake, forger, finagler, imitator, fraud, wrongdoer, fortune hunter, dissimulator, front, pseud, two-timer, bluffer, traitor, oilskin, straw man, man of the world, macintosh, scammer, mac, gouger, slyboots, faker, figurehead, swindler, defalcator, phoney, mack, peculator, strawman, chiseller, city boy, role player, betrayer, front man, impersonator, impostor, imposter, steerer, shammer, sham, four-flusher, misleader, liar, chiseler, dissembler, fox, defrauder, beguiler, hypocrite, falsifier, obscurantist, city slicker, grifter, counterfeiter, prevaricator, sandbagger, offender, charlatan, sophisticate, utterer, decoy, phony, mackintosh, embezzler, wangler, double-crosser


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