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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.


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"



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"Slicker" Quotes from Famous Books



... was jogging along at a foot pace, his spurs jingling, his bridle hand high after the Western fashion. When he saw Bob he reined in, nodding a good morning. Bob noticed that he had strapped on a blanket and slicker, and wore his six-shooter. ...
— The Rules of the Game • Stewart Edward White
... don't worry about that!" declared the deputy chief. "I never saw a slicker piece ...
— Tom Swift among the Fire Fighters - or, Battling with Flames from the Air • Victor Appleton
... up, he found it of almost no weight. He fastened it to his own pack while Marette put on her raincoat and went down the stair ahead of him. In the hall below she was waiting, when he came down, with Kedsty's big rubber slicker ...
— The Valley of Silent Men • James Oliver Curwood
... 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
... bore down on the station at a dead run. One of the riders jumped off and ran for the office. The other unstrapped a bundle, apparently mostly slicker, from his companion's saddle cantle. In a moment the first emerged. The energetic Nita had opened the window, ...
— Desert Conquest - or, Precious Waters • A. M. Chisholm


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