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Definition of Slick

1. Adjective. 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. Verb. Make slick or smooth.

3. Noun. A slippery smoothness. "He could feel the slickness of the tiller"

4. Adjective. Having only superficial plausibility. "A slick commercial"

5. Verb. Give a smooth and glossy appearance. "They slick their hair "; "Slick one's hair"

6. Noun. A magazine printed on good quality paper.

7. Adjective. Having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light. "Slick seals and otters"

8. Noun. A film of oil or garbage floating on top of water.

9. Adjective. Marked by skill in deception. "A wily old attorney"

10. Noun. A trowel used to make a surface slick.

Definition of Slick

1. a. Sleek; smooth.

2. v. t. To make sleek or smoth.

3. n. A wide paring chisel.

4. n. A slick, or smooth and slippery, surface or place; a sleek.

Definition of Slick

1. Proper noun. 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. ¹

2. Adjective. Slippery due to a covering of liquid; often used to describe appearances. ¹

3. Adjective. Appearing expensive or sophisticated. ¹

4. Adjective. Superficially convincing but actually untrustworthy. ¹

5. Adjective. Clever, making an apparently hard task easy; often used sarcastically. ¹

6. Adjective. (US West Coast slang) Extraordinarily great or special. ¹

7. Noun. A covering of liquid, particularly oil. ¹

8. Noun. (sports automotive) A tire with a smooth surface instead of a tread pattern, often used in auto racing. ¹

9. Noun. (US military slang) A helicopter. ¹

10. Noun. (printing) 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. ¹

11. Verb. To make slick ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Slick

1. smooth and slippery [adj SLICKER, SLICKEST] / to make slick [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: slick

Medical Definition of Slick

1. See Schlich. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Slick

slice category slice into slice through slice up sliceable sliced sliced and diced sliced bread slicer slicers

slices slices and dices slicing slicing and dicing slicings slick (current term) slick back slick down slick magazine slick up

slicked slicked-back slicked up slicken slickened slickener slickeners slickening slickens slickenside

Literary usage of Slick

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"1837 Prudence guessed strawberries and cream were slick. Balt. Comml. Transcript, Sept. 4, p. 2/3. 1840 We should think that the roads in Greece would be as ..."

2. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1845)
"Mr. slick is speaking of the consequences of sending young girls away to female ... Mr. slick attributes the origin of these abuses, on the part of parents, ..."

3. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1845)
"Mr, slick is speaking of the consequences of sending young girls away to female ... Mr. slick attributes the origin of these abuses, on the part of parents, ..."

4. The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature: Containing an Account of by William Thomas Lowndes, Henry George Bohn (1865)
"The Clockmaker, or sayings and doings of Samuel slick of slickville, 1st series, 1837. ... The Attache, or Sam slick in England, 1st series, Lond . 1843. ..."

5. The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient by Richard Garnett, Leon Vallée, Alois Brandl (1899)
"What a pity it is, Mr. slick " (for such was his name), "what a pity it is,"said I, "that you, who are so successful in teaching these people the value of ..."

6. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"Sam slick is an awkward and highly infelicitous attempt to make a character, by heaping together, without discrimination, selection, arrangement, or taste, ..."

7. The International Library of Famous Literature: Selections from the World's by Richard Garnett, Leon Vallée, Alois Brandl, Donald Grant Mitchell (1899)
"What a pity it is, Mr. slick " (for such was his name), "what a pity it is," said I, ... Mr. slick paused, as if considering the propriety of answer- ..."

8. The Gentleman's Magazine (1851)
"By the author of Sam slick. 2 noli. ... a man with the qualities necessary to enable him to write such books as those which Sara slick has made popular, ..."

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