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slick

 
Adjective slick has 4 senses
  1. glossy, satiny, sleek, silken, silky, silklike, slick - 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"
    Antonyms: rough, unsmooth (indirect, via smooth)
  2. slick - 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"
    Antonym:
    nonslippery (indirect, via slippery)
  3. glib, pat, slick - having only superficial plausibility; "glib promises"; "a slick commercial"
    Antonym: implausible (indirect, via plausible)
  4. crafty, cunning, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily - 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"
    Antonym: artless (indirect, via artful)
Noun slick has 4 senses
  1. slickness, slick, slipperiness, slip - a slippery smoothness; "he could feel the slickness of the tiller"
    --1 is a kind of smoothness
    Derived forms: verb slick2, verb slick1
  2. slick, slick magazine - a magazine printed on good quality paper
    --2 is a kind of magazine, mag
  3. slick - a film of oil or garbage floating on top of water
    --3 is a kind of
    film
    --3 has particulars: oil slick
  4. slick - a trowel used to make a surface slick
    --4 is a kind of
    trowel
Verb slick has 2 senses
  1. slick, sleek - make slick or smooth
    --1 is one way to polish, smooth, smoothen, shine
    Derived form: noun slick1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  2. slick, slick down, sleek down - give a smooth and glossy appearance; "slick one's hair"
    --2 is one way to comb, comb out, disentangle
    Derived form: noun slick1
    Sample sentence:
    They slick their hair
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