slick
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: automotive
geography
government
hobbies
hydrodynamics
hydrology
lifestyle
media
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
politics
printing
publishing
sports
transport
vehicles
war
Etymology: From Middle English slicke, slike, slyke, from Old English slīc (“sleek, smooth; crafty, cunning, slick”), from Proto-Germanic *slīkaz (“sleek, smooth”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleyg-, *sleyǵ- (“to glide, smooth, spread”).
Akin to Dutch sluik, dialectal Dutch sleek (“even, smooth”), Old Norse slíkr (“sleek, smooth”), Old English slician (“to make sleek, smooth, or glossy”).
Inflected forms:
form: slicker
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: slickest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: slicks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: slicks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: slicking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: slicked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: slicked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Slippery or smooth due to a covering of liquid; often used to describe appearances.
pos: adj
examples: This rain is making the roads slick.
The top coating of lacquer gives this finish a slick look.
His large round head was shaved slick.
my nipples got hard, and my cunt was slickwith juice.
Morning commuters in parts of Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas discovered slick sidewalks and icy roadways Monday.
gloss: Sleek; smooth.
pos: adj
examples: Both slick and dainty.
gloss: Appearing expensive or sophisticated.
pos: adj
examples: They read all kinds of slick magazines.
gloss: Superficially convincing but actually untrustworthy.
pos: adj
examples: That new sales rep is slick. Be sure to read the fine print before you buy anything.
The threat the most radical of them pose is evidently far greater at home than abroad: in one characteristically slick and chilling Isis video – entitled “a message to the Jordanian tyrant” – a smiling, long-haired young man in black pats the explosive belt round his waist as he burns his passport and his fellow fighters praise the memory of Zarqawi, who was killed in Iraq in 2006.
gloss: Clever, making an apparently hard task look easy.
pos: adj
tags: often
sarcastic
examples: Our new process for extracting needles from haystacks is extremely slick.
That was a slick move, locking your keys in the car.
I leave the train at Salisbury, where (in a very slick operation) another two-car set is added to the front of the train before it heads for London.
gloss: Extraordinarily great or special.
pos: adj
tags: US
examples: That is one slick bicycle: it has all sorts of features!
gloss: A covering of liquid, particularly oil.
pos: noun
examples: Careful in turn three — there's an oil slick on the road.
The oil slick has now spread to cover the entire bay, critically endangering the sea life.
gloss: A rapidly-expanding ring of dark water, resembling an oil slick, around the site of a large underwater explosion at shallow depth, marking the progress through the water of the shock wave generated by the explosion.
pos: noun
tags: US
broadly
dated
gloss: Someone who is clever and untrustworthy.
pos: noun
gloss: A tool used to make something smooth or even.
pos: noun
gloss: A tire with a smooth surface instead of a tread pattern, often used in auto racing.
pos: noun
examples: You'll go much faster if you put on slicks.
gloss: A helicopter.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: The project was delayed because the slick had not been delivered to the printer.
gloss: A glossy magazine.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Many of the stories in SSB [Sex Behind Bars] first appeared in gay slicks, Mandate, Honcho, First Hand, et al.
When Carver, wild to be published in a major slick, decided to accept the changes, Maryann accused him “of being a whore, of selling out to the establishment.”
gloss: A wide paring chisel used in joinery.
pos: noun
gloss: In omegaverse fiction, the copious, lubricating bodily fluid produced by an omega in heat.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: I spent two fucking days locked up in that hotel room, miserable and hating myself and drenched in my own slick!
For his ruts, Castiel orders slick from a single donor, who is, unbeknownst to him, Dean, who lives at the Roadhouse and is in contact with many of his colleagues and rescuees.
She observed another parallel to menstruation, namely the abundance of 'slick' that Omegas produce when they go into heat, which mainly functions as an anal lubricant.
gloss: A silver coin that has been worn to the point its surface feels smooth to the touch.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: a slick doesn’t really give you anything except the satisfaction of owning it, while the hole gives you satisfaction if actually being able to see something
Somebody once came into the coin shop with a bunch of really well-worn junk silver that would commonly be called "slicks."
gloss: To make slick.
pos: verb
examples: The surface had been slicked.
So I slicked the broccoli with oil and seasonings and set it to roast.
Derived words: slick as a whistle
slickem
slickhead
slickly
slickness
slick Rick
slickrock
slickster
slickwater
Slick Willie
superslick
ultraslick
unslick
big slick
little slick
oil slick
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