slick

Meanings

Adjective

• Slippery or smooth due to a covering of liquid; often used to describe appearances.
• Appearing expensive or sophisticated.
• Superficially convincing but actually untrustworthy.
• Clever, making an apparently hard task easy.
• Extraordinarily great or special.
• sleek; smooth

Noun

• A covering of liquid, particularly oil.
• 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.
• A tire with a smooth surface instead of a tread pattern, often used in auto racing.
• A helicopter.
• 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.
• A wide paring chisel used in joinery.
• In omegaverse fiction, the copious, lubricating bodily fluid produced by an omega in heat.
• Alternative of schlich

Verb

• To make slick.

Origin

• From Middle English slicke, slike, slyke, from Old English slīc, from Proto-Germanic *slīkaz,
• from Proto-Indo-European *sleyg-, *sleyǵ-. Akin to Dutch sluik, dialectal Dutch sleek, Old Norse slíkr, Old English slician.