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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



... with the saddles, the reins as long as plough lines, while the bit was frequently ornamental and costly. The indispensable slicker, a greatcoat of oiled canvas, was ever at hand, securely tied to our cantle strings. Spurs were a matter of taste. If a rider carried a quirt, he usually dispensed with spurs, though, when used, those with large, dull rowels were the make ...
— The Log of a Cowboy - A Narrative of the Old Trail Days • Andy Adams
... ticking steadily through it all; it was barely a quarter to five. He spread his slicker on the bunk and laid Slim on it and tried to wash the blood from the floor and the logs of the cabin wall, but it left a stain. He changed his shirt—murderers always changed ...
— The Man from the Bitter Roots • Caroline Lockhart
... Mr. Collins came from the mill. He shook his dripping hat, and hung up the stiff yellow rain-coat that he called a 'slicker.' ...
— Honey-Sweet • Edna Turpin
... as one paralyzed while the Captain snatched his rubber hat from the nail behind the kitchen door, and slipped into his slicker. He was out of the house before the coat was fastened about ...
— Captain Pott's Minister • Francis L. Cooper
... see him goin' away with my boots, wall I knowed the way that train wuz a runnin' he couldn't git off with them without breakin' his durned neck, but in about half an hour he brot them back, guess they didn't fit him. Wall I wuz sort of glad he took em cause he hed em all shined up slicker 'n a new tin whistle. Wall when I got up in the mornin' my trubbles commenced. I wuz so crouded up like, durned if I could git my clothes on, and when I did git em on durned if my pants wa'nt on hind side afore, and my socks got all tangled ...
— Uncles Josh's Punkin Centre Stories • Cal Stewart


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