The Collaborative International Dictionary
Slickens \Slick"ens\, n. [Cf. Slick, n.] (Mining) The pulverized matter from a quartz mill, or the lighter soil of hydraulic mines. [Local, U. S.]
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 vb. (en-third-person singular of: slicken) Etymology 2
n. 1 (context US dialect English) The pulverised matter from a quartz mill. 2 (context US dialect mining English) The lighter soil of hydraulic mines.
Usage examples of "slickens".
Lippincott Mercantile Bank, DeGoone Slickens, the corporate raider, and an offshore company I have never before heard of, Crown Acquisitions, Limited.
Clearly something is in the wind, because Looncraft and Slickens are bitter business enemies.
The maneuver was called risk arbitrage, and DeGoone Slickens was its apostle.
DeGoone Slickens, which was why he had two bodyguards sitting outside his office at all times.
They were former Dallas Cowboys whom Slickens had hired because, in addition to being a two-man Berlin Wall, they were nice status symbols.
Once Slickens learns that Looncraft is after Global Communications, he will attempt to hold him up for the moon.
When the new order was in place, Looncraft intended to shunt Slickens into some barely visible position.
British soul to think that a man who came from such a fine family as Slickens could have, in little more than a hundred years, become so degradingly Americanized.
If we eliminate Douglas Lippincott and DeGoone Slickens, the rest do not matter.
DeGoone Slickens lifted his face to the screen to see the face more clearly.