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Slick
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- 1 Slippery or smooth due to a covering of liquid; often used to describe appearances.
"This rain is making the roads slick."
- 2 Sleek; smooth.
"Both slick and dainty."
- 3 Appearing expensive or sophisticated.
"They read all kinds of slick magazines."
- 4 Superficially convincing but actually untrustworthy.
"That new sales rep is slick. Be sure to read the fine print before you buy anything."
- 5 Clever, making an apparently hard task look easy. often, sarcastic
"Our new process for extracting needles from haystacks is extremely slick."
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- 6 Extraordinarily great or special. US
"That is one slick bicycle: it has all sorts of features!"
- 1 marked by skill in deception wordnet
- 2 having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light; being of a smooth, soft and lustrous quality, resembling silk wordnet
- 3 having only superficial plausibility wordnet
- 4 superficially impressive, but lacking depth and attention to the true complexities of a subject wordnet
- 5 made slick by e.g. ice or grease wordnet
- 1 Alternative form of sleek (“with ease and dexterity”). alt-of, alternative, colloquial, not-comparable
"We're just following a couple of crooks who've got slick away in that two-funnelled boat yonder, and we mean to keep in touch with them till they land."
- 1 A term of address, generally applied to males, possibly including strangers, implying that the person addressed is slick in the sense of "sophisticated", but often used sarcastically.
"That was a great move locking your keys in the car, Slick."
- 1 A covering of liquid, particularly oil.
"Careful in turn three — there's an oil slick on the road."
- 2 Alternative form of schlich. alt-of, alternative
- 3 a trowel used to make a surface slick wordnet
- 4 A rapidly-expanding ring of dark water, resembling an oil slick, around the site of a large underwater explosion at shallow depth, marking the progress through the water of the shock wave generated by the explosion. US, broadly, dated
- 5 a film of oil or garbage floating on top of water wordnet
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- 6 Someone who is clever and untrustworthy.
- 7 a slippery smoothness wordnet
- 8 A tool used to make something smooth or even.
- 9 a magazine printed on good quality paper wordnet
- 10 A tire with a smooth surface instead of a tread pattern, often used in auto racing.
"You'll go much faster if you put on slicks."
- 11 A helicopter. US, slang
- 12 A camera-ready image to be used by a printer. The "slick" is photographed to produce a negative image which is then used to burn a positive offset plate or other printing device.
"The project was delayed because the slick had not been delivered to the printer."
- 13 A glossy magazine. slang
"Many of the stories in SSB [Sex Behind Bars] first appeared in gay slicks, Mandate, Honcho, First Hand, et al."
- 14 A wide paring chisel used in joinery.
- 15 In omegaverse fiction, the copious, lubricating bodily fluid produced by an omega in heat. slang
"I spent two fucking days locked up in that hotel room, miserable and hating myself and drenched in my own slick!"
- 16 A silver coin that has been worn to the point its surface feels smooth to the touch. slang
"a slick doesn’t really give you anything except the satisfaction of owning it, while the hole gives you satisfaction if actually being able to see something"
- 1 To make slick.
"The surface had been slicked."
- 2 give a smooth and glossy appearance wordnet
- 3 make slick or smooth wordnet
Etymology
From Middle English slicke, slike, slyke, from Old English slīc (“sleek, smooth; crafty, cunning, slick”), from Proto-Germanic *slīkaz (“sleek, smooth”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleyg-, *sleyǵ- (“to glide, smooth, spread”). Akin to Dutch sluik, dialectal Dutch sleek (“even, smooth”), Old Norse slíkr (“sleek, smooth”), Old English slician (“to make sleek, smooth, or glossy”).
From Middle English slicke, slike, slyke, from Old English slīc (“sleek, smooth; crafty, cunning, slick”), from Proto-Germanic *slīkaz (“sleek, smooth”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleyg-, *sleyǵ- (“to glide, smooth, spread”). Akin to Dutch sluik, dialectal Dutch sleek (“even, smooth”), Old Norse slíkr (“sleek, smooth”), Old English slician (“to make sleek, smooth, or glossy”).
From Middle English slicke, slike, slyke, from Old English slīc (“sleek, smooth; crafty, cunning, slick”), from Proto-Germanic *slīkaz (“sleek, smooth”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleyg-, *sleyǵ- (“to glide, smooth, spread”). Akin to Dutch sluik, dialectal Dutch sleek (“even, smooth”), Old Norse slíkr (“sleek, smooth”), Old English slician (“to make sleek, smooth, or glossy”).
From Middle English slicke, slike, slyke, from Old English slīc (“sleek, smooth; crafty, cunning, slick”), from Proto-Germanic *slīkaz (“sleek, smooth”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleyg-, *sleyǵ- (“to glide, smooth, spread”). Akin to Dutch sluik, dialectal Dutch sleek (“even, smooth”), Old Norse slíkr (“sleek, smooth”), Old English slician (“to make sleek, smooth, or glossy”).
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