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slicker::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | oilskin |
| Type of | mac, mack, mackintosh, macintosh |
slicker::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | beguiler, cheat, cheater, deceiver, trickster |
| Type of | offender, wrongdoer |
| Has types | dissimulator, dodger, double-crosser, double-dealer, embezzler, fake, faker, falsifier, figurehead, finagler, forger, fortune hunter, four-flusher, fox, fraud, front, front man, gouger, grifter, hypocrite, imitator, impersonator, imposter, impostor, liar, misleader, mountebank, nominal head, obscurantist, peculator, phoney, phony, pretender, prevaricator, pseud, pseudo, role player, sandbagger, scammer, sham, shammer, slyboots, betrayer, straw man, strawman, swindler, traitor, two-timer, utterer, wangler, steerer, bluffer, charlatan, chiseler, chiseller, counterfeiter, decoy, defalcator, defrauder, dissembler |
slicker::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | sophisticate, man of the world |
| Has types | city boy, city slicker |
Examples of slicker
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Set hair in rollers for a full-bodied look or flat-iron hair for a slicker look.
From the chron.com
Over at site No. 65, Stella, a Chihuahua-terrier mix, sported a purple slicker.
From the thenewstribune.com
The obvious twist this time would be to cast the braces-clad slicker as a hero.
From the economist.com
Like so many other things, the idea of cool has become slicker and prepackaged.
From the washingtonpost.com
I can't agree that we were slicker under Bruce, we lacked shape as well as heart.
From the guardian.co.uk
It also has bigger, less statically-placed pictures and a generally slicker look.
From the techcrunch.com
Once a back-road country cousin, it is taking on a new life as a city slicker.
From the kentucky.com
Williams was brought in to provide a slicker, sterner dimension to Team Tiger.
From the telegraph.co.uk
As well as slicker marketing, he forwarded another idea to save the Test game.
From the independent.co.uk
- Oilskin: a macintosh made from cotton fabric treated with oil and pigment to make it waterproof
- A person with good manners and stylish clothing
- Deceiver: someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
- (The Slickers) The Slickers were a Jamaican rocksteady and reggae group in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
- A waterproof coat or jacket; A person who is perceived as clever, urbane and possibly disreputable. (abbreviation of city slicker.); comparative form of slick: more slick
- Waterproof long coat designed to protect rider and saddle from rain or snow.
- Came from a Western term for an orphaned calf.^[1] It referred to the naive nature of people from the Eastern cities. City slicker was derisively given to these Easterners for their assumption that their "book-learnin' " gave them superior intelligence. ...
- Rubber or oilskin coat.
- A tool with a beveled edge used to level and smooth plaster coats.
