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slick

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Adjective

  1. Slippery or smooth due to a covering of liquid; often used to describe appearances.
  2. Sleek; smooth.
  3. Appearing expensive or sophisticated.
  4. Superficially convincing but actually untrustworthy.
  5. Clever, making an apparently hard task look easy.
  6. Extraordinarily great or special.

Noun

  1. A covering of liquid, particularly oil.
  2. A rapidly-expanding ring of dark water, resembling an oil slick, around the site of a large underwater explosion at shallow depth, marking the progress through the water of the shock wave generated by the explosion.
  3. Someone who is clever and untrustworthy.
  4. A tool used to make something smooth or even.
  5. A tire with a smooth surface instead of a tread pattern, often used in auto racing.
  6. A helicopter.
  7. A camera-ready image to be used by a printer. The "slick" is photographed to produce a negative image which is then used to burn a positive offset plate or other printing device.
  8. A glossy magazine.
  9. A wide paring chisel used in joinery.
  10. In omegaverse fiction, the copious, lubricating bodily fluid produced by an omega in heat.
  11. A silver coin that has been worn to the point its surface feels smooth to the touch.
  12. Alternative form of schlich.

Verb

  1. To make slick.

Adverb

  1. Alternative form of sleek (“with ease and dexterity”).

Proper noun

  1. A term of address, generally applied to males, possibly including strangers, implying that the person addressed is slick in the sense of "sophisticated", but often used sarcastically.

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