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• n  a slippery smoothness
  he could feel the slickness of the tiller
• n  a magazine printed on good quality paper
• n  a film of oil or garbage floating on top of water
• n  a trowel used to make a surface slick
• v  make slick or smooth
• v  give a smooth and glossy appearance
  slick one's hair
• s  made slick by e.g. ice or grease
  sidewalks slick with ice
  roads are slickest when rain has just started and hasn't had time to wash away the oil
• s  having only superficial plausibility
  a slick commercial
• s  having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light
  slick seals and otters
• s  marked by skill in deception
  a slick evasive answer

• When obliged to initiate a sniveling little teacher's pet, they paddle him till he needs a doctor, slick down his hair so thoroughly with tar that he makes his next appearance .
• The videos may not be slick, but they're realand anyway, slick is overrated.
• The slick caused an estimated $100 million in damage and took five months to clean up.

• slickness
• slipperiness
• slip
• slick magazine
• glossy
• sleek
• slick down
• sleek down
• glib
• pat
• satiny
• silken
• silky
• silklike
• crafty
• cunning
• dodgy
• foxy
• guileful
• knavish
• sly
• tricksy
• tricky
• wily

News & Articles

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• Driver dies in rollover crash off 410 near Pearsall Rd
  SAN ANTONIO -- San Antonio Police said the slick roads caused a man driving a red Mustang to lose control and hydroplane off Loop 410 near Pearsall Road. The accident happened just before 6:30a.m. The car took out a highway sign and then rolled down the hill. The driver was thrown from the car and died on scene. Police said the driver had severe head trauma. A passerby called police after she ...
  June 12, 2013 - KENS 5 San Antonio
• PowerShell Command Line Introduction
  Here’s a slick PowerShell 3.0 one-liner. If you want to pull down an RSS feed from a blog, displaying only the title and publication date try: Invoke-RestMethod "http://www.dougfinke.com/blog/index.php/feed/" | Select title, pubdate It’s that simple. No looping, no checking end …
  June 12, 2013 - O'Reilly Media
• Merion’s slick greens and sticky rough will make U.S. Open tougher than you think
  Don’t worry about this being the Stick-It-With-A-Wedge Open, says SI’s Michael Bamberger. Merion’s super-slick greens -- like Augusta used to have -- and sticky rough will give us an Open worthy of this historic course.
  June 10, 2013 - Golf Magazine

Quotes

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• Orrin Hatch in Boston Globe
  This shouldn't be called a health care bill of rights, but a bill of goods that the American people aren't buying,said Senator Orrin G. Hatch, Republican of Utah. "There isn't enough slick advertising, politically crafted events, or artful...
• Denny Hamlin in Richmond Times Dispatch
  There's 42 other drivers that agree we should not be racing on that track,Hamlin said after canoeing back to the garage area. "I hit a slick spot. You can see it on TV."
• David Akers in USA Today
  Kicking balls are very, very slick,Akers said. "That might be something that needs to be addressed. A lot of people take the snap, hold and kick for granted. It just shows you how technical that is."