slicker
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈslɪkɚ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈslɪkə/
Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪkə(ɹ)
Etymology 1
From the adjective slick.
Noun
slicker (plural slickers)
- One who or that which slicks.
- (originally Canada, US) A waterproof coat or jacket.
- A person who is perceived as clever, urbane and possibly disreputable. (abbreviation of city slicker.)
- (slang) A swindler or conman.
- A symmetrical knife with a handle at each end, used for burnishing leather.
- (metalworking) A curved tool for smoothing the surfaces of a mould after the withdrawal of the pattern.
- A two-handled tool for finishing concrete or mortar; a darby.
- A brush for grooming a cat or other pet and removing loose fur.
- Synonym: slicker brush
- 2009, Vicky Halls, The Complete Cat, page 225:
- 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.
Synonyms
- (waterproof coat or jacket): poncho
Translations
waterproof coat or jacket
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swindler or conman
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Verb
slicker (third-person singular simple present slickers, present participle slickering, simple past and past participle slickered)
- To slither, as on a slick surface.
- 1883, Transactions of the Illinois State Horticultural Society:
- 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.
- 2013, Quinn Higgins, The Waiting Room, →ISBN, page 41:
- I carefully watched his quick emotions as they slickered in his eyes before he hid them.
- 2015, Joshua Gaylord, When We Were Animals, →ISBN:
- That's me, a holy greased pig, slickering away out of the fumbling hands of evil.
- To con or hoodwink.
- 1976, Forrest Carter, Rennard Strickland, The Education of Little Tree, →ISBN, page It was at the crossroads store where I got slickered out of my fifty cents.:
- 1979, John Greenway, Susan Perl, Tales from the United States, →ISBN, page 9:
- I knew he had been slickered again.
- To use a slicker on.
- 1911, The Canadian Patent Office Record and Register of Copyrights and Trade marks, Volume 38:
- ...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.
- 1962, Central Leather Research Institute (India), Leather Science - Volume 9, page 209:
- The bends are rinsed well and slickered on both the sides to remove excess of water.
- To smooth or slick.
- 2008, Preston Wilson, Tales of Finnigan LeBlanc, Prince of Mushrat, →ISBN, page 42:
- Anyway, to make a long story short, here was this young kin of mine dressed in a white shirt and shoes and pale blue shorts standin' there with his hair slickered down, starin' at me.
- To spread mashed manure on fields as a form of fertilization.
See also
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