What is "slicker"

Usage examples of "slicker".

The body of the boy Neece was lifted over, a saddle and covered with a slicker.

Slickers and helmets, hatchets and breathing masks, were handed out from the big pumper truck while another crew deployed the hoses.

The front door opened and Frank Saulter rattled down the steps, pulling up the hood of his yellow slicker.

He had managed by this time to complete a second edition of his Manuel, a slicker one than the first, carrying letters of endorsation from four bishops, including one unlikely signator, the Bishop of Walla Walla in the distant territory of Washington.

I swung my head around and saw the mirthless looks of our slickered captors.

I caught up on paying bills, answered dozens of accumulated e-mails, napped in the late afternoon, phoned family and friends, and put on my hooded rain slicker to cross the street for a late-afternoon pedicure and manicure.

Johanna retreated to the other side of the fire while Scriber took off his rain slickers.

There was a great deal wrong with the Rustic Slicker, and he, Bayard Lodge, knew the Rustic Slicker as he knew no other manknew the blood and guts and brains of him, knew his thoughts and dreams and his hidden yearnings, his clodhopperish conceit, his smart-aleck snicker, the burning inferiority complex that drove him to social exhibitionism.

A man walked up from the harbor in rubber boots, a slicker over his shoulder: a lobsterman coming back from work.

The rainsuit was a mess so I put on an old yellow slicker and sneakers without laces and shambled out into the storm.

Some wore yellow rain slickers with matching shapeless hats, and some wore black vinyl coats, a few with plastic babushkas, boots or sandals, galoshes or street shoes, and some were barefoot, and some had thrown coats on over pajamas, and about half of them carried umbrellas, which came in a variety of colors yet failed to contribute a note of gaiety to the gathering.

New Wave Microtechnology, on the highlands along the northern perimeter of Moonlight Cove, the guard, wearing a black rain slicker with the corporate logo on the breast, squinted at the oncoming police cruiser.

He hung the hat on a peg by the door among slickers and blanketcoats and odd pieces of tack and came to the stove and got his coffee and took it to the table.

They sat in slickers, black and brown, glistening with rain and firelight.

Dim in the sheets of water coming over the side, figures in yellow slickers fought with the ropes in the waist or aloft.