lubricious

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Unlike Mariah Carey's Mimi alter ego, Fierce is nocturnal, digital and lubricious, fond of stark electro like 'Diva'.

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  • Anyway, they do, they look at each other; two beings with evolved eyes, rapacious, startled, connected at the belly in an unbelievably sweet lubricious glue, stare at each other, and the angels are desolate. —  3quarksdaily
  • Biocoat, Inc., maker of lubricious HYDAK® hydrophilic coatings, and Agion Technologies, the worldwide leader in natural silver-based antimicrobial solutions, today announced a co-marketing agreement to develop and promote a coatings product line featuring Agion's antimicrobial protection for medical devices. —  PRWeb
  • The new agreement, with some modifications over the previously cancelled agreement, provides Hydromer's customer, a large N.J. device manufacturer, to a continued supply & support of two of Hydromer's proprietary lubricious coatings for a fee of $35,000 per month on a non-exclusive basis. —  The Earth Times Online Newspaper
  • She put her name on a pink, virgin page, which added to the lubricious daring of my stagedoor entreaty. —  Sport news, comment and results | guardian.co.uk
  • Or maybe when you were fourteen, just beginning to eye that curvy cousin sitting right across the table, so lubricious you couldn't even ask for the chicken breast without moaning? —  Diner's Journal
 

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  1. Alteration of lubricous, from Latin lūbricus, slippery; see sleubh- in Indo-European roots.
 

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