Meaning

8 senses
  1. One who or that which slicks.

    someone who leads you to believe something that is not true

  2. (US)A waterproof coat or jacket.

    Regenjacke, Regenmantel

  3. A person who is perceived as clever, urbane and possibly disreputable. (abbreviation of city slicker.)

  4. (slang)A swindler or conman.

    Hochstapler, Schwindler

  5. A symmetrical knife with a handle at each end, used for burnishing leather.

  6. A curved tool for smoothing the surfaces of a mould after the withdrawal of the pattern.

  7. A two-handled tool for finishing concrete or mortar; a darby.

  8. Synonym of slicker brush

Examples

1 sentences
  1. The food industry in China is so downright criminal that city slickers become part-time farmers.

Translations

1 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 2
waterproof coat or jacket:
swindler or conman:

Origin

From slick (“to smooth or make slick”) + -er.

From slick (“to smooth or make slick”) + -er.

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Forms

plural: slickers
Singularslicker
Pluralslickers

regular

Synonyms

8 synonyms
waterproof coat or jacket:poncho
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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