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slicker

 
Adjective slick has 4 senses
  1. glossy, satiny, sleek, silken, silky, silklike, slick - having a smooth, gleaming surface; "glossy auburn hair"; "satiny gardenia petals"; "sleek black fur"; "silken eyelashes"; "silky skin"; "a silklike fabric"; "slick seals and otters"
    Antonyms: rough, unsmooth (indirect, via smooth)
  2. slick - 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"
    Antonym:
    nonslippery (indirect, via slippery)
  3. glib, pat, slick - having only superficial plausibility; "glib promises"; "a slick commercial"
    Antonym: implausible (indirect, via plausible)
  4. crafty, cunning, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily - 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 Dik"; "a wily old attorney"
    Antonym: artless (indirect, via artful)
Noun slicker has 3 senses
  1. oilskin, slicker - a macintosh made from cotton fabric treated with oil and pigment to make it waterproof
    --1 is a kind of macintosh, mackintosh, mac, mack
  2. slicker - a person with good manners and stylish clothing
    --2 is a kind of
    sophisticate, man of the world
    --2 has particulars: city slicker, city boy
  3. deceiver, cheat, cheater, trickster, beguiler, slicker - someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
    --3 is a kind of wrongdoer, offender
    --3 has particulars:
     bluffer, four-flusher; swindler, chiseller, chiseler, gouger, scammer, grifter, sharper, sharpie, sharpy; decoy, steerer; dodger, fox, slyboots; double-crosser, double-dealer, two-timer, betrayer, traitor; falsifier; finagler, wangler; forger, counterfeiter; fortune hunter; front man, front, figurehead, nominal head, straw man, strawman; hypocrite, dissembler, phony, phoney, pretender; impersonator, imitator; imposter, impostor, pretender, fake, faker, fraud, sham, shammer, pseudo, pseud, role player; liar, prevaricator; misleader; mountebank, charlatan; obscurantist; sandbagger; two-timer; utterer
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