slick
Pronunciation: /slɪk/
The English word “slick” has 18 meanings listed here.
adjective
- Slippery or smooth due to a covering of liquid; often used to describe appearances.
- Sleek; smooth.
- Appearing expensive or sophisticated.
- Superficially convincing but actually untrustworthy.
- Clever, making an apparently hard task look easy.
- Extraordinarily great or special.
noun
- A covering of liquid, particularly oil.
- 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.
- Someone who is clever and untrustworthy.
- A tool used to make something smooth or even.
- A tire with a smooth surface instead of a tread pattern, often used in auto racing.
- A helicopter.
- 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.
- A glossy magazine.
- A wide paring chisel used in joinery.
- In omegaverse fiction, the copious, lubricating bodily fluid produced by an omega in heat.
- A silver coin that has been worn to the point its surface feels smooth to the touch.
verb
- To make slick.
Etymology
From Middle English slicke, slike, slyke, from Old English slīc (“sleek, smooth; crafty, cunning, slick”), from Proto-Germanic *slīkaz (“sleek, smooth”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleyg-, *sleyǵ- (“to glide, smooth, spread”). Akin to Dutch sluik, dialectal Dutch sleek (“even, smooth”), Old Norse slíkr (“sleek, smooth”), Old English slician (“to make sleek, smooth, or glossy”).
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