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slickverb to coat (something) with a slippery substance in order to reduce frictionslicking the bottom of their skis with wax grease, lubricate, oil, wax bathe, douse(also dowse), drench, soak, souse, wash, water, wet coarsen, rough, roughendehydrate, dry, parch, sear slickadjectivehaving or being a surface so smooth as to greatly reduce tractionroads are often slick during the first hour of a rainstorm greased, greasy, lubricated, oiled, slicked, slippery, slippy, slithery brushed, buffed, burnished, glossed, ground, polished, rubbed, shinedcoated, glazed, waxedsoapy, waxyrasped, sandblasted, sanded, sandpapered, scoured, scraped, scrubbed coarsened, rough, roughened, scuffed, uneven clever at attaining one's ends by indirect and often deceptive meansa slick ad campaign that made smoking look cool and sexy artful, beguiling, cagey(also cagy), crafty, cunning, cute, designing, devious, dodgy(chiefly British), foxy, guileful, scheming, shrewd, sly, subtle, tricky, wily astute, facile, glib, sharpcrooked, deceitful, deceptive, dishonest, fraudulent, insinuating, knavish, Machiavellian, oblique, serpentine, shady, shifty, slippery, sneaky, treacherous, underhand, underhanded, unscrupulousbackhanded, double-dealing, hypocritical, insincere, left-handed, mealy, mealymouthed, smooth-tongued, two-facedcircuitous, circular, roundaboutclandestine, concealed, covert, furtive, hugger-mugger, secret, stealthy, surreptitious, undercovercalculating, plotting artless, guileless, ingenuous, innocent, undesigning obvious, open, patent, plain, public, unconcealedaboveboard, candid, direct, forthright, frank, honest, natural, outspoken, plainspoken, real, simple, sincere, straightforward, unaffected, unpretending, unpretentious, unvarnishedchildlike, impressionable, simpleminded, unsophisticated, unworldlyunforced, unstudiedtrustful, trusting of the very best kindthat's a slick new suit you have on A-OK, A1, awesome, bang-up, banner, beautiful, blue-chip, blue-ribbon, boffo, bonny(also bonnie, chiefly British), boss(slang), brag, brave, bully, bumper, capital, choice, classic, cool(slang), corking, crackerjack, cracking, dandy, divine, dope(slang), down(slang), dynamite, excellent, fab, fabulous, famous, fantabulous(slang), fantastic, fine, first-class, first-rate, first-string, five-star, four-star, frontline, gangbusters(also gangbuster), gilt-edged(or gilt-edge), gone(slang), grand, great, groovy, heavenly, high-class, hot, hype(slang), immense, jim-dandy, keen, lovely, marvelous(or marvellous), mean, neat, nifty, noble, number one(also No. 1), numero uno, out-of-sight(slang), par excellence, peachy, peachy keen, phat(slang), prime, primo(slang), prize, prizewinning, quality, radical(slang), righteous(slang), sensational, splendid, stellar, sterling, superb, superior, superlative, supernal, swell, terrific, tip-top, top, top-notch, top-of-the-line, top-shelf, topflight, topping(chiefly British), unsurpassed, wizard(chiefly British), wonderful acceptable, adequate, all right, decent, good, OK(or okay), passable, satisfactory, tolerablebetter, exceptional, fancy, high-grade, high-test, premium, select, special, superfineclassical, standard, traditional out of this world, too much atrocious, awful, execrable, lousy, pathetic, poor, rotten, terrible, vile, wretched bad, inferior, low-grade, substandard, unsatisfactorymediocre, middling, second-class, second-rate adj.sleek, slick, glossy mean having a smooth bright surface or appearance.sleek suggests a smoothness or brightness resulting from attentive grooming or physical conditioning.a sleek racehorse slick suggests extreme smoothness that results in a slippery surface.slipped and fell on the slick floor glossy suggests a highly reflective surface.photographs having a glossy finish in the 13th century |