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Definition of Slick down
1. Verb. Give a smooth and glossy appearance. "They slick down their hair "; "Slick one's hair"
Generic synonyms: Comb, Comb Out, Disentangle
Derivative terms: Slick
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slick Down
Literary usage of Slick down
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary: A Description of Tools, Instruments by Edward Henry Knight (1876)
"Slickers are of various shapes ; they are used to slick down the curved surfaces
of molds after withdrawal of the pattern, or after blacking, as the trowel ..."
2. The Americanization of the World, Or, The Trend of the Twentieth Century by William Thomas Stead (1902)
"From the days of Sam slick down to those of Mr. Dooley, there has been an unfailing
succession of American humorists whose writings have done much to drive ..."
3. The Americanization of the World: Or, The Trend of the Twentieth Century by William Thomas Stead (1902)
"From the days of Sam slick down to those of Mr. Dooley, there has been an unfailing
succession of American humorists whose writings have done much to drive ..."
4. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1841)
"... pocket a wooden comb, ' in two parts,' made at the ' New-Hampshire Wooden-Howl
and Fancy Snuff-box Manufactory,' and began to ' slick down' his hair. ..."
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