# slicker
## English

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### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /ˈslɪkɚ/
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈslɪkə/
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪkə(ɹ)

### Etymology 1

From the adjective slick.

#### Adjective

slicker
* comparative form of slick: more slick

### Etymology 2

From slick (“to smooth or make slick”) +‎ -er.

#### Noun

slicker (plural slickers)
* One who or that which slicks.
* (originally Canada, US) A waterproof coat or jacket.
* A person who is perceived as clever, urbane and possibly disreputable. (abbreviation of city slicker.)
* (slang) A swindler or conman.
* A symmetrical knife with a handle at each end, used for burnishing leather.
* (metalworking) A curved tool for smoothing the surfaces of a mould after the withdrawal of the pattern.
* A two-handled tool for finishing concrete or mortar; a darby.
* A brush for grooming a cat or other pet and removing loose fur.
    Synonym: slicker brush
** 2009, Vicky Halls, The Complete Cat, page 225:There are numerous grooming products on the market, particularly for longhaired cats – for example, rakes, slickers and detangle sprays, many of which claim to make grooming as simple and safe as possible.

##### Synonyms

* (waterproof coat or jacket): poncho

##### Translations
#### Verb

slicker (third-person singular simple present slickers, present participle slickering, simple past and past participle slickered)
* To slither, as on a slick surface.
** 1883, Transactions of the Illinois State Horticultural Society:My good lady wife invited many and often her friends to a dish of cauliflower cooked as it ought to be and finely seasoned, and you ought to see how they slickered their tongues; it looked like appetite all over their faces.
** 2013, Quinn Higgins, The Waiting Room, →ISBN, page 41:I carefully watched his quick emotions as they slickered in his eyes before he hid them.
** 2015, Joshua Gaylord, When We Were Animals, →ISBN:That's me, a holy greased pig, slickering away out of the fumbling hands of evil.
* To con or hoodwink.
** 1976, Forrest Carter, Rennard Strickland, The Education of Little Tree, →ISBN, page It was at the crossroads store where I got slickered out of my fifty cents.:
** 1979, John Greenway, Susan Perl, Tales from the United States, →ISBN, page 9:I knew he had been slickered again.
* To use a slicker on.
** 1911, The Canadian Patent Office Record and Register of Copyrights and Trade marks, Volume 38:...carbon bisulphide, chloride of sulphur and sulphur precipitating substances, the surplus rubber adhering to the hide being then slickered off and finished with a cloth dipped in a rubber solvent.
** 1962, Central Leather Research Institute (India), Leather Science - Volume 9, page 209:The bends are rinsed well and slickered on both the sides to remove excess of water.
* To smooth or slick.
** 2008, Preston Wilson, Tales of Finnigan LeBlanc, Prince of Mushrat, →ISBN, page 42:Anyway, to make a long story short, here was this young kin of mine dressed in a white shirt and shoes and pale blue shorts standin' there with his hair slickered down, starin' at me.
* To spread mashed manure on fields as a form of fertilization.

#### See also

* city slicker

### Anagrams

* Rickels, Rickles, sickler, rickles, lickers, relicks, Sickler