Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A long water-repellant coat usually made of oilskin.
- n. A raincoat made of a glossy or shiny material, such as plastic or rubber.
- n. A tool for dressing hides.
- n. Informal A cheat; a swindler.
- n. Informal A person with stylish clothing and manners.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. etc. See sleeker, etc.
- n. Same as silver-fish, 6.
Wiktionary
- adj. comparative form of slick: more slick
- n. A waterproof coat or jacket.
- n. A person who is perceived as clever, urbane and possibly disreputable. (abbreviation of city slicker.)
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A kind of burnisher for leather.
- n. (Founding) A curved tool for smoothing the surfaces of a mold after the withdrawal of the pattern.
- n. Western U.S. A waterproof coat.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
- n. a person with good manners and stylish clothing
- n. a macintosh made from cotton fabric treated with oil and pigment to make it waterproof
Examples
“Author: Kyle DeBruhl “Oh man†¦ †Jeremy sighed as he stared out the window. “The old man†™ s at it again. †He pulled himself out of the chair and lumbered to the front door, seizing an rain slicker from the coat rack as he went.”
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“They also use what they call a slicker, being a dull edge of copper of about six or seven inches long set in a piece of wood, to serve as a handle.”
“Many other items will fit intothe box, and I usually fill it up along with my rain slicker and foding shooting sticks.”
“Always carry a rain slicker, both for rain, snow or just plain old wind.”
“Damn, you guys are cynical ... oh yea, and Doc Hollywood was the first film where a city slicker is a fish out of water in a hick town ... maybe you ought to start watching films from a few years before the 1980's?”
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“COATS: burzaka (Turkish) = rain slicker kabat (Hungarian) = padded linen jacket, various styles, buttoned guibba (Italian) = waterproof brown leather (goat or sheep) jacket with fleece lining, worn only by lighters and sinners manteau = wool cloak uwagi = silk dress jacket”
“Bosco = Skene island dedicated to forests and lumber as well as pig raising botaniste = horticulturalist; makes decisions about which species of plants or animals to resurrect from cold storage; annually elected position buono = upland burzaka = waterproof rain slicker”
“Large chunks of time can be taken up with the choice between wearing a rain slicker and taking an umbrella (otherwise known as the one-hand/two-hand method of carrying groceries).”
“He tells her not to worry, that he’ll be right back, but we notice that when he puts on his rain slicker, he has a rifle.”
“All his brother wore under his slicker was an undershirt and pajama bottoms.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘slicker’.
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Bad Options
words for those who commit particular crimes: i.e., bank robber, arsonist, etc.
liar, cheat, traitor, arsonist, felon, braggard, thief, profiteer, impostor, phony, fraud, culprit and 212 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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words
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good boy, atta boy, knee low, make a mountain o..., generalises, bard, slicker, laser focus group..., kilolex, viscosity, rotunda, fascinator and 10 more...
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smoooth
satined, sleek, glossy, legato, uncrannied, suave, smoothen, polish, satiny, flowing, levigate, politic and 78 more...
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Pseudo-seduction
With which to confuse innocent ladies (or gentlemen, if you prefer) who might be invited to don a coverslut and come to tour an adulterine castle. Plausible deniability through lexicographical obsc...
adulterine, coverslut, cunctatory, puissant, quincunx, coccyx, groin vault, sexpartite vault, nookshaft, putlog hole, cuirass, mensuration and 35 more...
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ShuckFinn's Words
abecedarian, conflate, mondegreen, whit, truculent, downright, pugnacious, effluvium, canker, inveigle, obfuscate, melancholy and 227 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (S)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
sabian symbols, saffron, sagacious, sage, salamander, sally lunn, salmon, salsify, salt water taffy, samhain, sand dollar, sandalwood and 270 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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Baby, It's Cold Outside!
Do as your mom says and put on a jacket.
frock coat, doublet, reefer, cutaway, morning coat, tailcoat, dinner jacket, smoking jacket, juste-au-corps, jerkin, basque, spencer and 134 more...
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Words of Blood Meridian
"Toadvine looked at him. The necklace of human ears he wore looked like a string of dried black figs. He was big and raw-looking and one eyelid sagged where a knife had severed the small muscles th...
apishamore, scullery, hewer, leonids, kitchenhouse, washpot, husbandman, bottomland, flatboat, boatswain, pesthouse, coastwise and 29 more...
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philology at its best
philology, philolphile, zeitgeist, slicker, wherewithal, auteur, lovelorn, oeuvre, gastronomy, wanderlust, ephemeron, star-crossed and 48 more...
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The Grifters
You're on the grift, same as me.
cheater, cheat, deceiver, deluder, dissimulator, swindler, faker, fleecer, flimflammer, fraud, fraudster, hustler and 81 more...
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Clothing and such
slacks, galoshes, slicker, fascinator, mackintosh, kitten heel, jeggings, matchy-matchy, slippers, shawl
Tweets
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asativum Also: more slick.
And an ostensibly sophisticated person, usually preceded by "city". Jan 22, 2008
treeseed raincoat Jan 22, 2008