slickness

noun

slickness

noun

/ˈslɪknɪs/

Etymology From slick + -ness.

1

The property of being slick.

  • The train was well filled, with quite an amount of intermediate business; but station staff and passengers alike seemed ready enough to "look lively", and the result was a general "slickness" in working that augers^([sic]) well for the future.1959 June 23, O. S. Nock, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 408:

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