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slick¹
- /slɪk/
Rhymes with -ɪk
Where it comes from
From Middle English slicke, slike, slyke, from Old English slīc (“sleek, smooth; crafty, cunning, slick”), from Proto-Germanic *slīkaz (“sleek, smooth”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleyg-, *sleyǵ- (“to glide, smooth, spread”).
Akin to Dutch sluik, dialectal Dutch sleek (“even, smooth”), Old Norse slíkr (“sleek, smooth”), Old English slician (“to make sleek, smooth, or glossy”).
adjective slicker · slickest
- Slippery or smooth due to a covering of liquid; often used to describe appearances. This rain is making the roads slick.
- Sleek; smooth. Both slick and dainty.
- Appearing expensive or sophisticated. They read all kinds of slick magazines.
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Superficially convincing but actually untrustworthy.
That new sales rep is slick. Be sure to read the fine print before you buy anything.
Similar: glib
- Clever, making an apparently hard task look easy. Our new process for extracting needles from haystacks is extremely slick.
- Extraordinarily great or special. That is one slick bicycle: it has all sorts of features!
noun slicks
- A covering of liquid, particularly oil. Careful in turn three — there's an oil slick on the road.
- A rapidly-expanding ring of dark water, resembling an oil slick, around the site of a large underwater explosion at shallow depth, marking the progress through the water of the shock wave generated by the explosion.
- Someone who is clever and untrustworthy.
- A tool used to make something smooth or even.
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A tire with a smooth surface instead of a tread pattern, often used in auto racing.
You'll go much faster if you put on slicks.
Similar: slick tire, slick tyre
- A helicopter.
- 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. The project was delayed because the slick had not been delivered to the printer.
- A glossy magazine. Many of the stories in SSB [Sex Behind Bars] first appeared in gay slicks, Mandate, Honcho, First Hand, et al.
- A wide paring chisel used in joinery.
- In omegaverse fiction, the copious, lubricating bodily fluid produced by an omega in heat. I spent two fucking days locked up in that hotel room, miserable and hating myself and drenched in my own slick!
- A silver coin that has been worn to the point its surface feels smooth to the touch. a slick doesn’t really give you anything except the satisfaction of owning it, while the hole gives you satisfaction if actually being able to see something
verb slicks · slicking · slicked
- To make slick. The surface had been slicked.
adverb
- Alternative form of sleek (“with ease and dexterity”). We're just following a couple of crooks who've got slick away in that two-funnelled boat yonder, and we mean to keep in touch with them till they land.
slick²
- /slɪk/
Rhymes with -ɪk
noun
- Alternative form of schlich
Slick³
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. That was a great move locking your keys in the car, Slick.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: slippery, satiny, sleek, slipperiness, slippy, smooth, glossy, slick down, pat, slip, silklike, silky, silken, satin, tricky, knavish
Translations
Every language
adj slippery due to a covering of liquid
| Español | resbaladizo |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | ギトギトな gito-gito na, つるつるな tsuru-tsuru na |
| Français | glissant |
| Deutsch | glitschig |
| Italiano | sdrucciolevole, viscido |
| Русский | ско́льзкий skólʹzkij |
adj appearing expensive or sophisticated
| Español | elegante, pulido, sofisticado |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | gekonnt |
adj superficially convincing but actually untrustworthy
| Español | liso, ingenioso pero insubstancial, hábil, que tiene mucha labia, labioso |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | schlau |
| Italiano | falso |
| Русский | ско́льзкий skólʹzkij, хи́трый xítryj |
adj clever, making an apparently hard task easy
| Español | astuto |
|---|---|
| Italiano | scaltro |
| Русский | ло́вкий lóvkij, хи́трый xítryj, у́мный úmnyj |
adj (US West Coast slang) extraordinarily great or special
| Deutsch | raffiniert, schlau |
|---|
noun covering of liquid, particularly oil
| Español | marea negra |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 기름띠 gireumtti |
| Français | nappe |
| Deutsch | Schlick, Ölschlick, Ölteppich |
| Русский | разлив razliv, пятно́ pjatnó, плёнка pljónka |
noun tire with a smooth surface instead of a tread pattern
| Español | neumático liso |
|---|---|
| Français | pneu lisse |
| Italiano | slick |
| Русский | слик slik |
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