slicker

One who or that which slicks.

Adjective

  1. comparative form of slick: more slick

Origin

From the adjective slick.

Noun

  1. One who or that which slicks.
  2. A waterproof coat or jacket.
  3. A person who is perceived as clever, urbane and possibly disreputable. (abbreviation of city slicker.)
  4. A swindler or conman.
  5. A symmetrical knife with a handle at each end, used for burnishing leather.
  6. A curved tool for smoothing the surfaces of a mould after the withdrawal of the pattern.
  7. A two-handled tool for finishing concrete or mortar; a darby.
  8. Synonym of slicker brush
    • 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. - 2009, Vicky...

    Synonyms: slicker brush

Origin

Etymology tree English slick English -er English slicker From slick (“to smooth or make slick”) + -er.

Forms

slickers

Synonyms

poncho

Derived

rainslicker

Verb

  1. To slither, as on a slick surface.
    • 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...
    • I carefully watched his quick emotions as they slickered in his eyes before he hid them. - 2013, Quinn Higgins, The Waiting Room, →ISBN, page 41:
    • That's me, a holy greased pig, slickering away out of the fumbling hands of evil. - 2015, Joshua Gaylord, When We Were Animals, →ISBN:
  2. To con or hoodwink.
    • I knew he had been slickered again. - 1979, John Greenway, Susan Perl, Tales from the United States, →ISBN, page 9:
  3. To use a slicker on.
    • ...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. - 1911, The Canadian...
    • The bends are rinsed well and slickered on both the sides to remove excess of water. - 1962, Central Leather Research Institute (India), Leather Science - Volume 9, page 209:
  4. To smooth or slick.
    • 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. - 2008, Preston Wilson, Tales of...
  5. To spread mashed manure on fields as a form of fertilization.

Forms

slickers slickering slickered

Related

city slicker