slicker
verbEtymology From slick (“to smooth or make slick”) + -er.
1
To slither, as on a slick surface.
- My good lady wife invited many and often her friends to a dish of cauliflower cooked as it ought to be and finely seasoned, and you ought to see how they slickered their tongues; it looked like appetite all over their faces.1883, Transactions of the Illinois State Horticultural Society:
- I carefully watched his quick emotions as they slickered in his eyes before he hid them.2013, Quinn Higgins, The Waiting Room, →ISBN, page 41:
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- That's me, a holy greased pig, slickering away out of the fumbling hands of evil.2015, Joshua Gaylord, When We Were Animals, →ISBN:
2
To con or hoodwink.
- I knew he had been slickered again.1979, John Greenway, Susan Perl, Tales from the United States, →ISBN, page 9:
3
To use a slicker on.
- ...carbon bisulphide, chloride of sulphur and sulphur precipitating substances, the surplus rubber adhering to the hide being then slickered off and finished with a cloth dipped in a rubber solvent.1911, The Canadian Patent Office Record and Register of Copyrights and Trade marks, Volume 38:
- The bends are rinsed well and slickered on both the sides to remove excess of water.1962, Central Leather Research Institute (India), Leather Science - Volume 9, page 209:
4
To smooth or slick.
- Anyway, to make a long story short, here was this young kin of mine dressed in a white shirt and shoes and pale blue shorts standin' there with his hair slickered down, starin' at me.2008, Preston Wilson, Tales of Finnigan LeBlanc, Prince of Mushrat, →ISBN, page 42:
5
To spread mashed manure on fields as a form of fertilization.
- Related terms
- city slicker