slick
Other forms: slicked; slickest; slicks; slicking
Slick means smooth or slippery, but it can also describe a smooth, effortless style. How did that Girl Scout talk you into buying so many boxes of cookies? It must have been her slick sales pitch.
A great salesman is often described as slick — he or she seems more like a friend than someone trying to sell you something. Things that are smooth and glossy can also be called slick, like the surface of a glass table or an icy patch on the sidewalk. Slick is also a verb, meaning "to smooth," like when you slick back your hair. The oldest meaning of slick is shiny, and in the 1620s, it was even the name of a kind of cosmetic.
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made slick by e.g. ice or grease
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having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light
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a slippery smoothness
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synonyms:
slickness, slip, slipperiness
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type of:
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smoothness
a texture without roughness; smooth to the touch
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smoothness
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make slick or smooth
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give a smooth and glossy appearance“slick one's hair”
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synonyms:
sleek down, slick down
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comb, comb out, disentangle
smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb
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comb, comb out, disentangle
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marked by skill in deception
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having only superficial plausibility
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a magazine printed on good quality paper
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synonyms:
glossy, slick magazine
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a film of oil or garbage floating on top of water
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a trowel used to make a surface slick
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type of:
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trowel
a small hand tool with a handle and flat metal blade; used for scooping or spreading plaster or similar materials
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trowel
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