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IPA: /slɪk/

Slick is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 51 anagrams from letters in slick (cikls).

Definitions for slick

noun

1. a smooth or slippery place or spot or the substance causing it:
2. 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).
3. any of various paddlelike tools for smoothing a surface.
4. Automotive. a wide tire without a tread, used in racing.
5. Military Slang. a helicopter.
6. Metallurgy. a small trowel used for smoothing the surface of the mold.
7. any woodworking chisel having a blade more than 2 inches (5 cm) wide.

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.

verb (used with object)

1. to make sleek or smooth.
2. to use a slicker on (skins or hides).
3. Informal. to make smart or fine; spruce up (usually followed by up).

Origin of slick

1300-50; Middle English slike (adj.); cognate with dialectal Dutch sleek even, smooth; akin to slick²

Examples for slick

But that minnit I seen an arm shoot out and that fellow shot off as slick!

“slick” was a word which she had recently learned from Smith.

She' always up to somethin' to make a dollar, and she's as slick a talker as ever was, I guess.

During its early incarnation, slick dress became the uniform for the violent disaffected youth taking to the streets.

And can you tie up a bundle quick and slick and make it look neat?

The locals might be laughing but the slick, wealthy crowd is here and ready for an explosive weekend at the legendary festival.

Dressed in a slick black suit, Chapman discovers, say, how people come to be millionaires.

What the Queen wanted most at the moment was to be quick and slick in getting off.

He licked them up with a slick bronzy tongue and spat a thick wad of honey-brown juice into the empty teacup.

If your ears are tired of slick auto-tuned vocals, pick up this disk for an aural detox.