Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Smooth, glossy, and slippery.
- adjective Deftly executed; adroit.
- adjective Confident and effortlessly effective, especially in being persuasive.
- adjective Superficially attractive or plausible but lacking depth or soundness.
- adjective Slang Excellent; wonderful.
- noun A smooth or slippery surface or area.
- noun A floating film of oil.
- noun A trail of floating material.
- noun An implement used to make a surface slick, especially a chisel used for smoothing and polishing.
- noun Informal A magazine, usually of large popular readership, printed on high-quality glossy paper.
- noun A smooth, treadless tire, often used for racing.
- noun Slang An unarmed military aircraft, especially a helicopter.
- transitive verb To make smooth, glossy, or oily.
- transitive verb Informal To make neat, trim, or tidy.
from The Century Dictionary.
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sleek . - noun In metallurgy, ore in a state of fine subdivision: as sometimes used, nearly synonymous with slimes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Sleek; smooth.
- transitive verb To make sleek or smoth.
- noun (Joinery) A wide paring chisel.
- noun A slick, or smooth and slippery, surface or place; a sleek.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Slippery due to a covering of liquid; often used to describe appearances. - adjective Appearing
expensive orsophisticated . - adjective Superficially convincing but actually
untrustworthy . - adjective Clever, making an apparently hard task easy; often used sarcastically.
- adjective US, West Coast slang Extraordinarily
great orspecial . - noun A covering of liquid, particularly
oil . - noun sports, automotive A
tire with a smooth surface instead of a tread pattern, often used in auto racing. - noun US, military slang A
helicopter . - 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.
- noun A wide
paring chisel used injoinery . - verb To make slick
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a magazine printed on good quality paper
- verb give a smooth and glossy appearance
- adjective having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light
- noun a slippery smoothness
- noun a film of oil or garbage floating on top of water
- noun a trowel used to make a surface slick
- adjective marked by skill in deception
- verb make slick or smooth
- adjective made slick by e.g. ice or grease
- adjective having only superficial plausibility
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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People use the term "slick" as if it were something other than a positive thing, but in the singing of Ann Hampton Callaway, slickness, along with amazing time and wonderful chops, is a virtue.
Female Leads, Classic Beats, Gil at St. Pete's Will Friedwald 2011
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The average mako cruising into a slick is about 80 pounds, but adults occasionally show up.
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The Studded Kling-On soles do well in slick conditions, but for the Salmon I think you really want to go with the Studded Rubber soles we offer.
how do studded soft rubber soles(such as the ones in korkers changable soles) compare to felt? 2010
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But you wouldn't know it from his constant appearances at political rallies and in slick, 10-minute television ads ahead of a presidential election Sunday.
Riding coattails of popular Brazilian president, former radical expected to win Juan Forero 2010
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The Studded Kling-On soles do well in slick conditions, but for the Salmon I think you really want to go with the Studded Rubber soles we offer.
how do studded soft rubber soles(such as the ones in korkers changable soles) compare to felt? 2010
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The Studded Kling-On soles do well in slick conditions, but for the Salmon I think you really want to go with the Studded Rubber soles we offer.
how do studded soft rubber soles(such as the ones in korkers changable soles) compare to felt? 2010
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As the oil slick from the recent offshore oil rig disaster makes its way to Gulf Coast shores - expected to devastate the precious ecosystem and hurt struggling businesses - the seeds of political fallout for the Obama administration are beginning to sprout.
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But you wouldn't know it from his constant appearances at political rallies and in slick, 10-minute television ads ahead of a presidential election Sunday.
Riding coattails of popular Brazilian president, former radical expected to win Juan Forero 2010
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The old standards (Kill Dr. Lucky, Bring Me the Brain) are back in slick full color editions.
Before I keeeeeeeeel you, Mister Nizz….. « Third Point of Singularity 2010
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The Studded Kling-On soles do well in slick conditions, but for the Salmon I think you really want to go with the Studded Rubber soles we offer.
how do studded soft rubber soles(such as the ones in korkers changable soles) compare to felt? 2010
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