slicker
/ˈslɪkɚ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.46 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
comparative form of slick: more slick
noun
One who or that which slicks.
noun
A person who is perceived as clever, urbane and possibly disreputable. (abbreviation of city slicker.)
noun
A symmetrical knife with a handle at each end, used for burnishing leather.
Example Sentences
- "There are numerous grooming products on the market, particularly for longhaired cats – for example, rakes, slickers and detangle sprays, many of which claim to make grooming as simple and safe as possible."
- "My good lady wife invited many and often her friends to a dish of cauliflower cooked as it ought to be and finely seasoned, and you ought to see how they slickered their tongues; it looked like appetite all over their faces."
- "I carefully watched his quick emotions as they slickered in his eyes before he hid them."
- "That's me, a holy greased pig, slickering away out of the fumbling hands of evil."
- "I knew he had been slickered again."
- "...carbon bisulphide, chloride of sulphur and sulphur precipitating substances, the surplus rubber adhering to the hide being then slickered off and finished with a cloth dipped in a rubber solvent."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈslɪkɚ/
- British English: /ˈslɪkə/