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Slick   /slɪk/   Listen
Slick

noun
1.
A slippery smoothness.  Synonyms: slickness, slip, slipperiness.
2.
A magazine printed on good quality paper.  Synonyms: glossy, slick magazine.
3.
A film of oil or garbage floating on top of water.
4.
A trowel used to make a surface 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"
verb
1.
Make slick or smooth.  Synonym: sleek.
2.
Give a smooth and glossy appearance.  Synonyms: sleek down, slick down.



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"Slick" Quotes from Famous Books



... doubt the fellow has a slick tongue in his mouth, and can spin stories that haven't a particle of foundation except in his brain. He's no ignoramus, that's sure, and if he hasn't traveled in all those countries he's read about the same, and ...
— The Chums of Scranton High Out for the Pennant • Donald Ferguson
... Morley spoke once of "that horrid burden and impediment upon the soul which the Churches call Sin, and which, by whatever name you call it, is a real catastrophe in the moral nature of man." The modern age, busy with slick, swift schemes for progress, has too ...
— Christianity and Progress • Harry Emerson Fosdick
... hardly could see, for it went up so high; He'd bring up his muscle and break any string That you tied on his arm like it wasn't a thing! He used to turn handsprings, and cartwheels, and he Could jump through his hands just as slick as could be, And circuses often would want him to go And be in the ring, but ...
— Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two • Various
... that is, he's a breed. They say his gran'mother was a Cree squaw—daughter of a chief, or somethin'. Anyways, this here Monk, he's a pretty slick ...
— The Gold Girl • James B. Hendryx
... run a sandy on the Mayor," Buck soliloquized as he walked rapidly uptown. "And I'll have to be mighty slick about it, too, or I'll get my fingers in the jam. If I get the Mayor on my side—if I get him to the point where he thinks well of me and would like to oblige me without prejudicing himself financially or politically—I ...
— The Valley of the Giants • Peter B. Kyne


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