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How to pronounce slick in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms glib, pat
Derivation slickness


a slick commercial.
Type Words
Synonyms slickness, slip, slipperiness
Type of smoothness


he could feel the slickness of the tiller.
Type Words
Synonyms facile, neat


a slick advertising campaign.
Type Words
Synonyms satiny, silken, silklike, silky, sleek
Derivation slickness


slick seals and otters.
Type Words
Synonyms sleek
Type of polish, shine, smooth, smoothen
Type Words
Synonyms crafty, cunning, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily
Derivation slickness


a slick evasive answer.
Type Words
Synonyms glossy, slick magazine
Type of magazine, mag
Type Words
Synonyms sleek down, slick down
Type of comb, comb out, disentangle


slick one's hair.
Type Words
Type of film
Has types oil slick
Type Words
Type of trowel
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Derivation slickness


sidewalks slick with ice.
roads are slickest when rain has just started and hasn't had time to wash away the oil.

Examples of slick

slick
A massive slick once the size of Florida has shrunk faster than anyone expected.
From the kentucky.com
An oil slick remains at the site just after the Deepwater Horizon rig's sinking.
From the latimes.com
You also can putt on a replica of the slick, fast greens used in pro golf today.
From the suntimes.com
The Princeton Review launched a slick new iPad app today called SAT Score Quest.
From the techcrunch.com
As does the editing, which tended to be less slick and frantic than it is today.
From the guardian.co.uk
Can't Wait is a slick mobile movie trailer player built on top of YouTube's API.
From the techcrunch.com
Setting up your QR code printout using the new feature is actually pretty slick.
From the techcrunch.com
He should have scored from a slick Glenn Whelan through-ball right on half time.
From the people.co.uk
The twist in the Cliq is that it combines social networking with slick hardware.
From the post-gazette.com
More examples
  • Slickness: a slippery smoothness; "he could feel the slickness of the tiller"
  • 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"
  • Make slick or smooth
  • A magazine printed on good quality paper
  • Give a smooth and glossy appearance; "slick one's hair"
  • Glib: having only superficial plausibility; "glib promises"; "a slick commercial"
  • Potassium channel subfamily T, member 2, also known as KCNT2 is a human gene that encodes the KCa4.2 protein. KCa4.2 is a member of the calcium-activated potassium channel protein family
  • Birds of Prey is a television drama series produced in 2002. The series was developed by Laeta Kalogridis for The WB and is loosely based on the Birds of Prey DC Comics series. Despite the weekly ratings of 7. ...
  • Slick is the name of two fictional comic book characters in the Marvel Universe. One is a demon and the other is a mutant (now depowered) and former student of the Xavier Institute.