Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive & intransitive verb To make or become slick.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
sleek .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Prov. Eng. Sleek; smooth.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To make
slick . - adjective UK, dialect
sleek ;smooth
Etymologies
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Examples
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Q: With Idiots and Angels you've chosen not to apply computer animation or to slicken it up.
Brad Balfour: Q&A Exclusive: Twice Oscar-Nominated Animator Bill Plympton Releases His Surreal Idiots and Angels Brad Balfour 2010
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Q: With Idiots and Angels you've chosen not to apply computer animation or to slicken it up.
Brad Balfour: Q&A Exclusive: Twice Oscar-Nominated Animator Bill Plympton Releases His Surreal Idiots and Angels Brad Balfour 2010
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Q: With Idiots and Angels you've chosen not to apply computer animation or to slicken it up.
Brad Balfour: Q&A Exclusive: Twice Oscar-Nominated Animator Bill Plympton Releases His Surreal Idiots and Angels Brad Balfour 2010
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Q: With Idiots and Angels you've chosen not to apply computer animation or to slicken it up.
Brad Balfour: Q&A Exclusive: Twice Oscar-Nominated Animator Bill Plympton Releases His Surreal Idiots and Angels Brad Balfour 2010
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Pleasure intensified inside her, burned so bright that perspiration began to slicken her skin.
Wicked Pleasures Leigh, Lora 2008
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She became mindless and stupid and desperate and the thought of having that big, hard body of his pumping in and out of hers made her belly and thighs clench and her sex tingle and slicken.
The Specialist Nelson, Rhonda 2006
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During the eighties the government had asked the railways to slicken up their act, to get modern, get groovy, get nasty - and the old man and his team had done it. too APPLYING PRESSURE They were aware that the lucrative business traveller was ignoring the railways.
Gridlock Elton, Ben 1991
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He is immensely pleased at having discovered a huge slicken-sided fault in the lavas of the Turk's Head.
Scott's Last Expedition Volume I Robert Falcon Scott 1890
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She is therefore for a term of twelve moons not permitted to wear any finery, neither is she permitted to slicken up and comb her head; this to avoid attracting attention.
A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians 1884
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She is therefore for a term of twelve moons not permitted to wear any finery, neither is she permitted to slicken up and comb her head; this to avoid attracting attention.
An Introduction to the mortuary customs of the North American Indians 1884
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