Slick

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  • adjective. Smooth, glossy, and slippery.
  • adjective. Deftly executed; adroit.
  • adjective. Confident and effortlessly effective, especially in being persuasive.
  • adjective. Superficially attractive or plausible but lacking depth or soundness.
  • adjective. Excellent; wonderful.
  • noun. A smooth or slippery surface or area.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A floating film of oil.
  • noun. A trail of floating material.
  • noun. An implement used to make a surface slick, especially a chisel used for smoothing and polishing.
  • noun. A magazine, usually of large popular readership, printed on high-quality glossy paper.
  • noun. A smooth, treadless tire, often used for racing.
  • noun. An unarmed military aircraft, especially a helicopter.
  • transitive verb. To make smooth, glossy, or oily.
  • transitive verb. To make neat, trim, or tidy.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • See sleek.
  • noun. In metallurgy, ore in a state of fine subdivision: as sometimes used, nearly synonymous with slimes.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Sleek; smooth.
  • transitive verb. To make sleek or smoth.
  • noun. A wide paring chisel.
  • noun. A slick, or smooth and slippery, surface or place; a sleek.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Slippery due to a covering of liquid; often used to describe appearances.
  • adjective. Appearing expensive or sophisticated.
  • adjective. Superficially convincing but actually untrustworthy.
  • adjective. Clever, making an apparently hard task easy; often used sarcastically.
  • adjective. Extraordinarily great or special.
  • noun. A covering of liquid, particularly oil.
  • noun. A tire with a smooth surface instead of a tread pattern, often used in auto racing.
  • noun. A helicopter.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. A wide paring chisel used in joinery.
  • verb. To make slick
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a magazine printed on good quality paper
  • verb. give a smooth and glossy appearance
  • adjective. having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light
  • noun. a slippery smoothness
  • noun. a film of oil or garbage floating on top of water
  • noun. a trowel used to make a surface slick
  • adjective. marked by skill in deception
  • verb. make slick or smooth
  • adjective. made slick by e.g. ice or grease
  • adjective. having only superficial plausibility
  • Word Usage
    "People use the term "slick" as if it were something other than a positive thing, but in the singing of Ann Hampton Callaway, slickness, along with amazing time and wonderful chops, is a virtue."
    Equivalent
    Form
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Crick  Dick  Frick  Hick  Mick  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    bare  clammy  dirty  moist  muddy  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    verb-form
    slicked  slicking  slicks