slick🔊

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. +

(often sarcastic) Clever, making an apparently hard task look easy.

(US, West Coast slang) Extraordinarily great or special.

A covering of liquid, particularly oil.

(by extension, hydrodynamics, US, dated) 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.

(sports, automotive) A tire with a smooth surface instead of a tread pattern, often used in auto racing. +

(US, military slang) A helicopter.

(printing) 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.

(publishing, slang) A glossy magazine.

A wide paring chisel used in joinery.

(fandom slang) In omegaverse fiction, the copious, lubricating bodily fluid produced by an omega in heat.

(slang) A silver coin that has been worn to the point its surface feels smooth to the touch.

To make slick.

(colloquial) With ease and dexterity. +