slick

Significado (Inglês)

Adj

1. Slippery or smooth due to a covering of liquid; often used to describe appearances.
2. Sleek; smooth.
3. Appearing expensive or sophisticated.
4. Superficially convincing but actually untrustworthy.
5. Clever, making an apparently hard task easy.
6. Extraordinarily great or special.

Noun

1. A covering of liquid, particularly oil.
2. 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.
3. Someone who is clever and untrustworthy.
4. A tool used to make something smooth or even.
5. A tire with a smooth surface instead of a tread pattern, often used in auto racing.
6. (slang) A helicopter.
7. 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.
8. (slang) A glossy magazine.
9. A wide paring chisel used in joinery.
10. (slang) In omegaverse fiction, the copious, lubricating bodily fluid produced by an omega in heat.
11. (slang) A silver coin that has been worn to the point it's surface feels smooth to the touch.

Verb

To make slick.

Adv

Alternative form of sleek (“with ease and dexterity”)

Noun

Alternative form of schlich

Sinônimos

slippery

smooth

sleek

glossy

cunning

sly

crafty

silky

dexterous

tricky

glib

viscous

adroit

slip

slipperiness

skilful

wily

guileful

skillful

handy

slick down

slicker

silklike

slickness

sleek down

slick magazine

great at

dextrous

slithery

slither

knavish

smart

dodgy

foxy

bright

elusive

evasive

satiny

oily

pat

shrewd

deft

silken

tricksy

pointed

polished

pungent

quickly

quick-witted

raft

ready

right

risque

rogue

salty

seamless

sharp

shrill

skilled

sleeker

sleekness

slimy

slippy

smarmy

smartly

smoother

smoothness

smooth-tongued

sneaky

sophisticated

spiky

stiff

strickle

strident

strike

surface

tart

treachery

trenchant

trite

unlined

acuate

fulgurating

glib-tongued

planish

deaccentuator

unseamed

unfurrowed

skimcoat

sleek over

spruced up

completely.

level and smooth

even surface

acerb

abhesive

acerbic

acute

affable

artful

beaked

biting

bold

clear

clever

crisp

cutting

devious

discriminative

dress

👗

easily

ferry

⛴️

ferryboat

flip

flirtatious

float

fly

✈️

glabrous

glossiness

glossy magazine

grease

greasy

incisive

ingenious

keen

lubricated

lubricious

manipulator

masterful

maverick

mordacious

mordant

oil

oil slick

peaked

peaky

perceptive

perspicacious

piercing

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/slɪk/

Etimologia (Inglês)

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”).