- slick´ness
- slick «slihk», adjective, verb, noun, adverb.–adj.3. Informal, Figurative. a) clever; ingenious; skillful; deft: »
a slick barber, a slick shortop.
b) sly; tricky: »a slick operator.
c) smooth of speech or manners but superficial; glib: »They were suspicious of [his] advertising, which they thought “slick” and American (New York Times).
4. Informal, Figurative. of or like that of a smooth, tricky person; cunningly made up: »a slick excuse.
–v.t.1. to make sleek or smooth: »Rain slicked the winding mountain roads (Time).
2. U.S. History. to punish by authority of a vigilance committee.–v.i.–n.1. a smooth place or spot. Oil makes a slick on the surface of water. »There is a slick of mud on the road.
2. U.S. Informal. a magazine printed on heavy, glossy paper: »He had spent nearly twenty years writing mostly wilderness-adventure serials, first for the pulps and then for the “slicks” (Newsweek).
3. a) a tool used for scraping and smoothing leather. b) a trowel for smoothing the top of a mold in founding.4. U.S. a large tire without a tread, made for hot rods.–adv.2. directly.╂[Middle English slike, related to Old English -slician make smooth]–slick´ly, adverb.–slick´ness, noun.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.
