Definitions for slicker

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slicker slick·er

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IPA: /ˈslɪk ər/

Slicker is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 192 anagrams from letters in slicker (ceiklrs).

Definitions for slicker

noun

1. a long, loose oilskin raincoat.
2. any raincoat.
3. Informal. a swindler; a sly cheat. city slicker.
4. a tool, usually of stone or glass, for scraping, smoothing, and working tanning agents into a skin or hide.
5. a smooth or slippery place or spot or the substance causing it:
6. Informal. a magazine printed on paper having a more or less glossy finish. such a magazine regarded as possessing qualities, as expensiveness, chic, and sophistication, that hold appeal for a particular readership, as one whose members enjoy or are seeking affluence. such a magazine regarded as having a sophisticated, deftly executed, but shallow or glib literary content. Compare pulp (def 6).
7. any of various paddlelike tools for smoothing a surface.
8. Automotive. a wide tire without a tread, used in racing.
9. Military Slang. a helicopter.

adverb

1. smoothly; cleverly.

adjective

1. smooth and glossy; sleek.
2. smooth in manners, speech, etc.; suave.
3. sly; shrewdly adroit:
4. ingenious; cleverly devised:
5. slippery, especially from being covered with or as if with ice, water, or oil.
6. deftly executed and having surface appeal or sophistication, but shallow or glib in content; polished but superficial; glib:
7. Slang. wonderful; remarkable; first-rate.

Origin of slicker

First recorded in 1880-85; slick¹ + -er¹

Examples for slicker

Lance stooped indifferently to untie his slicker and blanket from the saddle.

Then he sat down in the middle, crushing the slicker deep into the spring bloom.

The inside of her was slicker'n any parlor car you ever saw.

The older, slicker Biden, with four years of veep-hood under his belt, had some gifts handed to him on a platter.

She folded the slicker lengthwise and threw it across her shoulder.

Out went the underground graphics; in came a cleaner, slicker style.

"Sure," said the other gracelessly, and tossed his own slicker onto a bunk.

The idea was to remake it in a slicker and, of course, more costly version.

Then she put up a lunch and stowed it in the pocket of her slicker.

Gosh, I jist fooled him out of his two dollars slicker 'n a whistle.