Crossword clues for slick
slick
- Superficially appealing
- Smooth in manners
- Slippery, as an icy road
- Sign of a spill
- Like roads with black ice
- Like overproduced production
- Like icy roads
- Like glossy production
- Like black ice
- Like an ice-covered road
- Like a conman
- Highly-polished Southern rock guitar line (5)
- Haliburton hero Sam
- Film of spilled oil
- Covered in ice or oil
- Cleverly devised
- Alternative to "champ" or "sport"
- Adjective for a snake oil salesman
- ___ Rick (rhyming rapper)
- Film of fuel on sea
- Deft
- Like a snake-oil salesman
- Oily driving hazard
- Rain-covered
- Like a recently waxed floor
- Like pomaded hair
- Cleverly crafted
- A magazine printed on good quality paper
- A slippery smoothness
- Smooth-talking
- Urbane
- Suave
- Smooth start to surprising defeat
- Not good to accept line showing too much pizazz?
- Smooth and glossy
- Like a roadway after an ice storm
- Tanker spill
- Like some salesmen
- Like oil on the floor
- Bad for traction
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English -slician (in nigslicod "newly made sleek"), from Proto-Germanic *slikojan, from base *slikaz (cognates: Old Norse slikr "smooth," Old High German slihhan "to glide," German schleichen "to creep, crawl, sneak," Dutch slijk "mud, mire"), from PIE *sleig- "to smooth, glide, be muddy," from root *(s)lei- "slimy" (see slime (n.)). Related: Slicked; slicking.
1620s, a kind of cosmetic, from slick (v.). Meaning "smooth place on the surface of water caused by oil, etc." is attested from 1849. Meaning "a swindler, clever person" is attested from 1959.
early 14c., "smooth, glossy, sleek" (of skin or hair); sense of "clever in deception" is first recorded 1590s; that of "first-class, excellent" is from 1833. Related: Slickly; slickness.
Wiktionary
1 slippery due to a covering of liquid; often used to describe appearances. 2 Appearing expensive or sophisticated. n. 1 A covering of liquid, particularly oil. 2 Someone who is clever and untrustworthy. 3 A tool used to make something smooth or even. 4 (context sports automotive English) A tire with a smooth surface instead of a tread pattern, often used in auto racing. 5 (context US military slang English) A helicopter. 6 (context printing English) 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. 7 A wide pare chisel used in joinery. v
To make slick
WordNet
v. make slick or smooth [syn: sleek]
give a smooth and glossy appearance; "slick one's hair" [syn: slick down, sleek down]
n. a slippery smoothness; "he could feel the slickness of the tiller" [syn: slickness, slipperiness, slip]
a magazine printed on good quality paper [syn: slick magazine]
a film of oil or garbage floating on top of water
a trowel used to make a surface slick
adj. 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" [syn: glossy, satiny, sleek, silken, silky, silklike]
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"
having only superficial plausibility; "glib promises"; "a slick commercial" [syn: glib, pat]
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" [syn: crafty, cunning, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily]
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 63
Land area (2000): 0.441560 sq. miles (1.143635 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.441560 sq. miles (1.143635 sq. km)
FIPS code: 68000
Located within: Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40
Location: 35.776525 N, 96.266845 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Slick
Wikipedia
Slick may refer to:
A slick is a large chisel, characterized by a wide (2-4 inches, 5–10 cm), heavy blade, and a long, frequently slender, socketed handle. The combined blade and handle can reach two feet (60 cm) in length. The blade of a slick is slightly curved lengthwise, and/or the handle socket is cranked upward, such that the handle and socket clear the surface of the work when the edge is touching. This distinguishes the slick from the similarly-sized, short-handled millwright's chisel.
In use, a slick is always pushed; never struck (thus the slender handle). Using a combination of the tool's weight and bracing the handle against the shoulder or upper arm, fine paring cuts are made. Slicks are used mostly by shipwrights and timber framers.
Kenneth "Ken" Johnson (born December 8, 1957) is an American professional wrestling manager, better known by his ring name, Slick. Slick is best known for his appearances with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) in the late 1980s and early 1990s, where he was the first African American manager in WWF history. He is also a second generation talent and the son of former professional wrestler Rufus R. Jones.
''' Slick ''' is the ninth album by former Temptations vocalist Eddie Kendricks.
Slick is a nickname for:
- Slick Aguilar (born 1954), American guitarist, most notably with Jefferson Starship
- Slick Castleman (1913-1998), American Major League Baseball pitcher
- Slick Coffman (1910–2003), American Major League Baseball pitcher
- Chalmers Goodlin (1923–2005), one of the test pilots of the X-1
- Gene Host (1933-1998), American baseball pitcher
- Slick Johnson (1948-1990), American stock car racing driver
- Mark "Slick" Johnson, American professional wrestling referee
- Slick Jones (1907-1969), American jazz drummer
- Nick Kisner (born 1991), American boxer
- Bobby Leonard, former American Basketball Association and National Basketball Association player and coach
- Slick Lollar (1905-1945), National Football League player in the 1929 season
- Arthur Morton (American football) (1914-1999), American football player and college head coach
- E. R. Moulton (1900-1979), American educator, college football and baseball player and high school coach
- Slick Smith, American stock car racing driver in the 1940s and '50s
- Slick Watts (born 1951), American former National Basketball Association player
Slick is the surname of:
- Grace Slick (born 1939), American singer and songwriter
- Joe Slick (born 1977), American retired mixed martial arts fighter
- Thomas Baker Slick, Sr. (1883-1930), discoverer of Oklahoma's then-largest oil field
- Thomas Whitten Slick (1869–1959), United States federal judge
- Tom Slick (Thomas Baker Slick, Jr.) (1916–1962), American inventor and businessman, son of Thomas Slick, Sr.
A slick magazine is a magazine printed on high-quality glossy paper. The term may have come into use in the 1930s, and was used to distinguish these magazines from pulp magazines, which were printed on cheap, rough paper. The slicks also attempted to appeal to a more elite audience. Examples of magazines regarded as slicks include Vanity Fair, Saturday Evening Post, Better Homes and Gardens, and Harper's.
Usage examples of "slick".
Where Anele pointed, in a notch between slick stones at the lapping edge of the water, lay a roughly triangular patch of fine sand.
It was the emotion itself, the intense, giddying, slick, and sick-making ardor she had heard in their voices that appalled her.
A soft moan flowed from somewhere deep inside her, a secret place that was like sun-warmed butter, slick and aqueous, swelling sweetly until she was filled with its fluid warmth.
He glanced about, at the cage, the obliviously moving aliens, at the slick sheen of mercury-like substance that covered the armature of the birdcage.
But today was market day down in Aspic Hole, and the pungent slick of dung-smell and rot that rolled over New Crobuzon was, in these streets, for these hours, improved with paprika and fresh tomato, hot oil and fish and cinnamon, cured meat, banana and onion.
A few minutes later Ralph Bales emerged, slicking back his thinning hair with damp hands.
Her arm, she discovered, was bandaged heavily over some slick and foul-smelling ointment.
Ollia Bekke poised tense and trembling, and with the first lick of blood-colored lightning from her Globe a slick of sweat shone on her brow.
He talked microbes and biofilms and bacterial communities even when they reached the protruding tongue of slick, black stones leading into the first cave, even during all the business of docking and handing her over the side and mentioning that she just might want to watch out for the algae that made the cave entrance so slippery and oops, I forgot to mention that little bump just inside.
This bland, slick, talkative bookseller, was he arranging some blackmailing scheme to kidnap the girl and wring blood-money out of her father?
They walked along the river past the town and came to a spot where ceiba trees with slick green leaves and whitish bark and roots like alligator tails grew close to the shore, and there they ate and talked and listened to the water gulping against the clay bank, to the birds, to the faint noises from the airbase that at this distance sounded part of nature.
They walked along the river past the town and came to a spot where ceiba trees with massy crowns of slick green leaves and whitish bark and roots like alligator tails grew close to the shore, and there they ate and talked and listened to the water gulping against the clay bank, to the birds, to the faint noises from the airbase that at this distance sounded part of nature.
The Ganmiddich roundhouse was high ceilinged, damp, lit by fish-oil lanterns that made the walls slick with grease.
He yelled for Sarah to stay down and then he took one, two, three steps and dove forward, sliding down the slick hard tiles as Chulo came around the end of the open door.
Soon the catwalk was littered with the dead and the dying, and slick with rivers of blood that dripped from the edges of the catwalk in another endless rain.