slick

slick
    adj 1: 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"
    2: having only superficial plausibility; "glib promises"; "a
       slick commercial" [syn: {glib}, {pat}, {slick}]
    3: having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light; "glossy
       auburn hair"; "satiny gardenia petals"; "sleek black fur";
       "silken eyelashes"; "silky skin"; "a silklike fabric"; "slick
       seals and otters" [syn: {satiny}, {sleek}, {silken}, {silky},
       {silklike}, {slick}]
    4: marked by skill in deception; "cunning men often pass for
       wise"; "deep political machinations"; "a foxy scheme"; "a
       slick evasive answer"; "sly as a fox"; "tricky Dick"; "a wily
       old attorney" [syn: {crafty}, {cunning}, {dodgy}, {foxy},
       {guileful}, {knavish}, {slick}, {sly}, {tricksy}, {tricky},
       {wily}]
    n 1: a slippery smoothness; "he could feel the slickness of the
         tiller" [syn: {slickness}, {slick}, {slipperiness}, {slip}]
    2: a magazine printed on good quality paper [syn: {slick},
       {slick magazine}, {glossy}]
    3: a film of oil or garbage floating on top of water
    4: a trowel used to make a surface slick
    v 1: make slick or smooth [syn: {slick}, {sleek}]
    2: give a smooth and glossy appearance; "slick one's hair" [syn:
       {slick}, {slick down}, {sleek down}]
    

Schlich \Schlich\, n. [G.; akin to LG. slick mud, D. slijk, MHG.
   sl[imac]ch.] (Metal.)
   The finer portion of a crushed ore, as of gold, lead, or tin,
   separated by the water in certain wet processes. [Written
   also {slich}, {slick}.]
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Slick \Slick\, v. t.
   To make sleek or smoth. "Slicked all with sweet oil."
   --Chapman.
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Slick \Slick\, n. (Joinery)
   A wide paring chisel.
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Slick \Slick\, n.
   A slick, or smooth and slippery, surface or place; a sleek.

         The action of oil upon the water is upon the crest of
         the wave; the oil forming a slick upon the surface
         breaks the crest.                        --The Century.
   [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
    

Slich \Slich\, Slick \Slick\, n. (Metal.)
   See {Schlich}.
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Slick \Slick\, a. [See {Sleek}.]
   Sleek; smooth. "Both slick and dainty." --Chapman.
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Slick, OK (town, FIPS 68000)
  Location: 35.77644 N, 96.26657 W
  Population (1990): 124 (62 housing units)
  Area: 1.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    

Slick, OK -- U.S. town in Oklahoma
   Population (2000):    148
   Housing Units (2000): 63
   Land area (2000):     0.441560 sq. miles (1.143635 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    0.441560 sq. miles (1.143635 sq. km)
   FIPS code:            68000
   Located within:       Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40
   Location:             35.776525 N, 96.266845 W
   ZIP Codes (1990):    
   Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   Headwords:
    Slick, OK
    Slick
    

261 Moby Thesaurus words for "slick":
      Byzantine, Ciceronian, Daedalian, Demosthenian, Demosthenic,
      Machiavellian, Machiavellic, Tullian, acute, adept, adipose,
      adroit, anal, anoint, apt, arch, artful, artfully, articulate,
      artistic, astute, astutely, authoritative, beeswax, blubbery,
      bravura, brilliant, buff, buffed, burnish, burnished, buttery,
      butyraceous, cagey, cagily, calculating, cannily, canny, chrismal,
      chrismatory, clean, clever, cleverly, coordinated, crack,
      crackerjack, crafty, creative, cunning, cunningly, cute, daedal,
      daub, deceitful, deck out, deep, deep-laid, deft, designing,
      devious, dexterous, dextrous, dinky, diplomatic, doll up, dress,
      dress up, eloquent, embrocate, excellent, expert, facund, fancy,
      fat, fatty, felicitous, feline, finish, finished, fix up, foxily,
      foxy, furbish, furbished, glace, glance, glassy, glaze, glazed,
      gleaming, glib, glide, glissade, gloss, glossy, glycerolate, good,
      goodish, graceful, grease, grease the wheels, greased, greasy,
      guileful, guilefully, gussy up, handy, hep, imaginative, ingenious,
      insidious, insidiously, inventive, knowing, knowingly, lacquered,
      lard, lardaceous, lardy, lubric, lubricate, lubricated, lubricious,
      luster, magisterial, masterful, masterly, meretricious, mucoid,
      neat, nimble-witted, no mean, oil, oiled, oily, oleaginous, oleic,
      on the sly, pawky, perfect, plausible, polish, polished, politic,
      pomade, professional, proficient, quick, quick-witted, quite some,
      ready, refine, resourceful, rich, round, rub, rubbed, salve,
      satiny, scheming, scour, sebaceous, serpentine, shallow, sharp,
      sharp-witted, shellacked, shiftily, shifty, shine, shining, shiny,
      shipshape, shrewd, shrewdly, silken, silky, silver, silver-tongued,
      skillful, sleek, slick down, slick on, sliddery, slip, slipper,
      slippery, slippy, slither, slithery, sly, slyly, smarmy, smart,
      smarten up, smear, smooth, smooth the way, smooth-spoken,
      smooth-tongued, smoothly, smug, snaky, sneaky, snug, soap the ways,
      soaped, soapy, some, sophistical, specious, spellbinding, spiff,
      spruce, spruce up, statesmanlike, stealthy, strategic, stylish,
      suave, subtile, subtilely, subtle, subtlely, suety, superficial,
      supple, sycophantic, tactful, tactical, tallowy, the compleat,
      the complete, tidy, tight, trickily, trickish, tricksy, tricky,
      trig, trim, unctuous, unguent, unguentary, unguentous, urbane,
      varnish, varnished, velvety, virtuoso, vulpine, warily, wary, wax,
      well-cared-for, well-done, well-groomed, well-spoken, wilily, wily,
      workmanlike