slick

9 definitions found

slick - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Schlich \Schlich\, n. [G.; akin to LG. slick mud, D. slijk, MHG.
     sl[imac]ch.] (Metal.)
     The finer portion of a crushed ore, as of gold, lead, or tin,
     separated by the water in certain wet processes. [Written
     also slich, slick.]
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  Slick \Slick\, v. t.
     To make sleek or smoth. "Slicked all with sweet oil."
     --Chapman.
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  Slick \Slick\, n. (Joinery)
     A wide paring chisel.
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  Slick \Slick\, n.
     A slick, or smooth and slippery, surface or place; a sleek.
  
           The action of oil upon the water is upon the crest of
           the wave; the oil forming a slick upon the surface
           breaks the crest.                        --The Century.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

  Slich \Slich\, Slick \Slick\, n. (Metal.)
     See Schlich.
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  Slick \Slick\, a. [See Sleek.]
     Sleek; smooth. "Both slick and dainty." --Chapman.
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slick - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  slick
      adj 1: made slick by e.g. ice or grease; "sidewalks slick with
             ice"; "roads are slickest when rain has just started and
             hasn't had time to wash away the oil"
      2: having only superficial plausibility; "glib promises"; "a
         slick commercial" [syn: glib, pat, slick]
      3: having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light; "glossy
         auburn hair"; "satiny gardenia petals"; "sleek black fur";
         "silken eyelashes"; "silky skin"; "a silklike fabric"; "slick
         seals and otters" [syn: satiny, sleek, silken, silky,
         silklike, slick]
      4: marked by skill in deception; "cunning men often pass for
         wise"; "deep political machinations"; "a foxy scheme"; "a
         slick evasive answer"; "sly as a fox"; "tricky Dick"; "a wily
         old attorney" [syn: crafty, cunning, dodgy, foxy,
         guileful, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky,
         wily]
      n 1: a slippery smoothness; "he could feel the slickness of the
           tiller" [syn: slickness, slick, slipperiness, slip]
      2: a magazine printed on good quality paper [syn: slick,
         slick magazine, glossy]
      3: a film of oil or garbage floating on top of water
      4: a trowel used to make a surface slick
      v 1: make slick or smooth [syn: slick, sleek]
      2: give a smooth and glossy appearance; "slick one's hair" [syn:
         slick, slick down, sleek down]

slick - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :

  Slick, OK (town, FIPS 68000)
    Location: 35.77644 N, 96.26657 W
    Population (1990): 124 (62 housing units)
    Area: 1.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

slick - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  261 Moby Thesaurus words for "slick":
     Byzantine, Ciceronian, Daedalian, Demosthenian, Demosthenic,
     Machiavellian, Machiavellic, Tullian, acute, adept, adipose,
     adroit, anal, anoint, apt, arch, artful, artfully, articulate,
     artistic, astute, astutely, authoritative, beeswax, blubbery,
     bravura, brilliant, buff, buffed, burnish, burnished, buttery,
     butyraceous, cagey, cagily, calculating, cannily, canny, chrismal,
     chrismatory, clean, clever, cleverly, coordinated, crack,
     crackerjack, crafty, creative, cunning, cunningly, cute, daedal,
     daub, deceitful, deck out, deep, deep-laid, deft, designing,
     devious, dexterous, dextrous, dinky, diplomatic, doll up, dress,
     dress up, eloquent, embrocate, excellent, expert, facund, fancy,
     fat, fatty, felicitous, feline, finish, finished, fix up, foxily,
     foxy, furbish, furbished, glace, glance, glassy, glaze, glazed,
     gleaming, glib, glide, glissade, gloss, glossy, glycerolate, good,
     goodish, graceful, grease, grease the wheels, greased, greasy,
     guileful, guilefully, gussy up, handy, hep, imaginative, ingenious,
     insidious, insidiously, inventive, knowing, knowingly, lacquered,
     lard, lardaceous, lardy, lubric, lubricate, lubricated, lubricious,
     luster, magisterial, masterful, masterly, meretricious, mucoid,
     neat, nimble-witted, no mean, oil, oiled, oily, oleaginous, oleic,
     on the sly, pawky, perfect, plausible, polish, polished, politic,
     pomade, professional, proficient, quick, quick-witted, quite some,
     ready, refine, resourceful, rich, round, rub, rubbed, salve,
     satiny, scheming, scour, sebaceous, serpentine, shallow, sharp,
     sharp-witted, shellacked, shiftily, shifty, shine, shining, shiny,
     shipshape, shrewd, shrewdly, silken, silky, silver, silver-tongued,
     skillful, sleek, slick down, slick on, sliddery, slip, slipper,
     slippery, slippy, slither, slithery, sly, slyly, smarmy, smart,
     smarten up, smear, smooth, smooth the way, smooth-spoken,
     smooth-tongued, smoothly, smug, snaky, sneaky, snug, soap the ways,
     soaped, soapy, some, sophistical, specious, spellbinding, spiff,
     spruce, spruce up, statesmanlike, stealthy, strategic, stylish,
     suave, subtile, subtilely, subtle, subtlely, suety, superficial,
     supple, sycophantic, tactful, tactical, tallowy, the compleat,
     the complete, tidy, tight, trickily, trickish, tricksy, tricky,
     trig, trim, unctuous, unguent, unguentary, unguentous, urbane,
     varnish, varnished, velvety, virtuoso, vulpine, warily, wary, wax,
     well-cared-for, well-done, well-groomed, well-spoken, wilily, wily,
     workmanlike