Slicker

//ˈslɪkɚ// adj, noun, verb, slang

adj, noun, verb, slang ·Common ·High school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One who or that which slicks.
  2. 2
    a macintosh made from cotton fabric treated with oil and pigment to make it waterproof wordnet
  3. 3
    A waterproof coat or jacket. US
  4. 4
    someone who leads you to believe something that is not true wordnet
  5. 5
    A person who is perceived as clever, urbane and possibly disreputable. (abbreviation of city slicker.)
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  1. 6
    a person with good manners and stylish clothing wordnet
  2. 7
    A swindler or conman. slang
  3. 8
    A symmetrical knife with a handle at each end, used for burnishing leather.
  4. 9
    A curved tool for smoothing the surfaces of a mould after the withdrawal of the pattern.
  5. 10
    A two-handled tool for finishing concrete or mortar; a darby.
  6. 11
    Synonym of slicker brush

    "There are numerous grooming products on the market, particularly for longhaired cats – for example, rakes, slickers and detangle sprays, many of which claim to make grooming as simple and safe as possible."

Verb
  1. 1
    To slither, as on a slick surface.

    "My good lady wife invited many and often her friends to a dish of cauliflower cooked as it ought to be and finely seasoned, and you ought to see how they slickered their tongues; it looked like appetite all over their faces."

  2. 2
    To con or hoodwink.

    "I knew he had been slickered again."

  3. 3
    To use a slicker on.

    "...carbon bisulphide, chloride of sulphur and sulphur precipitating substances, the surplus rubber adhering to the hide being then slickered off and finished with a cloth dipped in a rubber solvent."

  4. 4
    To smooth or slick.

    "Anyway, to make a long story short, here was this young kin of mine dressed in a white shirt and shoes and pale blue shorts standin' there with his hair slickered down, starin' at me."

  5. 5
    To spread mashed manure on fields as a form of fertilization.
Adjective
  1. 1
    comparative form of slick: more slick comparative, form-of

Synonyms

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abradantabrasivebeguilerbunco artistbunco steererburnish

Antonyms

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farmer

Example

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"There are numerous grooming products on the market, particularly for longhaired cats – for example, rakes, slickers and detangle sprays, many of which claim to make grooming as simple and safe as possible."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From the adjective slick.

Etymology 2

From slick (“to smooth or make slick”) + -er.

Related phrases

city slicker

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