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Definition: Slicker |
SlickerNoun1. A macintosh made from cotton fabric treated with oil and pigment to make it waterproof. 2. Someone who leads you to believe something that is not true. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "slicker" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1915. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | A platform of heavy overlapping planks cleated together that is drawn over soil to compact and smooth its surface, to improve its condition, or to crush clods. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A small implement used in a foundry for smoothing the surface of a mold. (references) |
Occupations | Brushes felt hats to clean hats and applies polish and wax to surface to impart smooth, finished appearance: Brushes hat to remove dust, lint, and loose fibers and rotates hat over steampipe to remove excess gloss and condition fibers. Pulls hat onto block of revolving spindle and depresses pedal to start block rotating. Brushes silk polish (banana oil solution) onto hat to produce gloss. Applies wax to lure (cloth pad), rubs pad against heated iron to melt wax, and holds heated pad against rotating hat to smooth and finish appearance of felt. May place hi-roll hat in metal jig to shape and sharpen style lines. (references) |
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Synonyms: SlickerSynonyms: beguiler (n), cheat (n), cheater (n), deceiver (n), oilskin (n), trickster (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Slicker |
| Specialty definitions using "slicker": HIDE STRETCHER, HAND ♦ laborer, drying department. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | City Slicker (1951) The City Slicker (1938) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | A slicker. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Slicker" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 60.71% of the time. "Slicker" is used about 28 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 60.71% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Adjective (comparative) | 39.29% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Total | 100.00% | 28 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "slicker" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Slicker | Last name | 170 | 42,051 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expression using "slicker": city slicker. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "slicker": city-slicker. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "slicker"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | pardesy (overcoat, tabard, topcoat, trench coat), mushama (Mac, Macintosh, Mackintosh, mat, oilcloth, oil-coat, oiler, Oilers, oilskin, raincoat, trench coat, waterproof), fëshfëshe, batakçi (blackguard, blackleg, con man, fiddler, grafter, gyp, humbug, hustler, knave, leg, picaroon, rogue, scaramouch, sharper, trickster, twister, villain). (various references) | |
Arabic | المشمع قماش مزيت. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | хитрец (coon, dodger, file, operator, shuffler, slyboots, smart aleck, smarty), обигран гражданин, мушама (oil, oilcloth, oilskin, tarpaulin, waterproof), елегантен гражданин, измамник (ambidextrous, bilk, bilker, cheat, counterfeit, deceiver, double-dealer, fake, fiddler, fraud, gyp, impostor, intake, juggler, ringer, rook, sharp, sharpy, swindler), дъждобран (raincoat, waterproof). (various references) | |
Chinese | "较油滑. (various references) | |
Danish | soelvfisk (fish moth, silverfish), træagerslæber (brush stalk cutter, bush breaker, bush puller, corn cutter, drag, plank, plank drag, planker, scrub clearing machine, scrub cutter, stalk cutter, stalk mulcher, stalk shredder, timber float, wooden float), træagerslæbe (brush stalk cutter, bush breaker, bush puller, corn cutter, drag, plank, plank drag, planker, scrub clearing machine, scrub cutter, stalk cutter, stalk mulcher, stalk shredder, timber float, wooden float), agerslæbe af træ (brush stalk cutter, bush breaker, bush puller, corn cutter, drag, plank, plank drag, planker, scrub clearing machine, scrub cutter, stalk cutter, stalk mulcher, stalk shredder, timber float, wooden float). (various references) | |
Dutch | suikergast (fish moth, silverfish), zilvervisje (fish moth, silverfish), houten sleep (drag, plank, plank drag, planker, timber float, wooden float), akkersleep van hout (drag, plank, plank drag, planker, timber float, wooden float). (various references) | |
Farsi | حقه باز (Phony, Snide, Trickster), زرنگ (Adroit, Agile, Apt, Bright, Clever, Dapper, Jaunty, Nimble, Pawky, Shifty, Shrewd, Smart, Snide, Spry), صیقل زن . (various references) | |
Finnish | sokeritoukka (fish moth, silverfish). (various references) | |
French | rouleau brise-mottes, petit poisson d'argent, niveleuse en bois, monteur de coups, lépisme du sucre, lépisme argenté, combinard. (various references) | |
German | Schwindler (bilker, con man, confidence trickster, dodger, fake, faker, fibber, fiddler, finagler, finaglers, fraud, frauds, goldbricker, impostor, juggler, liar, masquerader, phoney, phony, shark, swindler), glatter (glossier). (various references) | |
Greek | ξύλινος ισοπεδωτής (drag, plank, plank drag, planker, timber float, wooden float), μαλαγάνασ, επιτήδειοσ (clever, crafty, cunning, deft, dexterous, dextrous, great at, handy, shrewd, skilful, skillful, slick), λέπισμα (fish moth, silverfish), απατεών (circumventer, circumventor, cozener, crook, deceiver, faker, fraud, hoodwinker, jockey, knave, rook, shammer, shark, sharp, shaver, swindler, tricker, trickster, victimizer, welcher, welsher), αδιάβροχο πανωφόρι (raincoat), ψαράκι (diving header, minnow, smelt, tiddler). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מעיל 'שם (oilskin, raincoat, trench coat, waterproof), ערמומי (arch, artful, calculating, canny, catchy, crafty, cunning, devious, foxy, insidious, pawky, shifty, sly, underhand, wily). (various references) | |
Hungarian | esőköpeny, dörzsölt fickó (fly customer, flyboy, knowing card). (various references) | |
Italian | imbroglione (blackleg, cheat, deceiver, fraud, frauds, imposter, swindler, trickster). (various references) | |
Korean | " 매끄러운 (Silkier). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ickerslay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | vigarista (adventurer, bilk, biter, black list, cheat, pettifogger, pettifogging, sharp, sharper, swindler, trickster), trapaceiro (bribetaker, censorious, cheat, corndodger, crook, dodger, duffer, grafter, gyp, hoe-cake, pettifogger, pettifogging, rogue, rook, shammer, shark, sharp, sharper, shuffler, swindler, trickster, tricky), niveladora de madeira (drag, plank, plank drag, planker, timber float, wooden float), impermeável (burberry, damp proof, impenetrable, macintosh, mackintosh, rainproof, raintight, repellent, unsavory, unsavoury), espertalhão (corndodger, dodger, dodgy, fly, fox, leery, smart). (various references) | |
Russian | макинтош;гладилка, жулик (bilk, bilker, cheat, con, faker, gyp, phoney, phony, rapscallion, ratbag, rogue, sharper, swindler), плащ (cloak, pallium, raincoat, trench coat). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pomodar (cockscomb, fashion plate, swell), kišni mantil (mackintosh, raincoat, waterproof). (various references) | |
Spanish | tramposo (cheat, deceitful, dishonest, fiddler, trickster, tricky), trampista (frauds), tablón (board, plank), rastra niveladora de madera (drag, plank, plank drag, planker, timber float, wooden float), rastra de tablones (drag, plank, plank drag, planker, timber float, wooden float), pececillo plateado (fish moth, silverfish), pececillo de plata (fish moth, silverfish), lepisma del azúcar (fish moth, silverfish), lepisma (Silverfish), impermeable (impermeable, impervious, Mac, Mackintosh, raincoat, rainproof, raintight, showerproof, tight, vatertight, waterproof, watertight), embaucador (cheat, trickster). (various references) | |
Swedish | smart individ, nattsmyg (fish moth, silverfish), blank regnrock. (various references) | |
Turkish | yağmurluk (anorak, Macintosh, Mackintosh, raincoat, rainproof, trench coat, waterproof), şık giyimli dolandırıcı, şık giyimli şehirli. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | макінтош. (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Lepisma saccharina. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "slicker": slickers. (additional references) | |
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"Slicker" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Selinker, Selniker, shicker, slenker, slicka, sliker, slikke, slinker, slucker, slyker, Spicker. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "slicker" (pronounced sli"ker) |
| 4 | -l i" k er | clicker, flicker, licker, liquor. |
| 3 | -i" k er | Bicker, Dicker, kicker, picker, quicker, sicker, snicker, sticker, thicker, ticker, vicar, whicker, wicker. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: lickers. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-i-k-l-r-s" | |
-1 letter: clerks, ickers, licker, likers, relics, sicker, sickle, slicer. | |
-2 letters: ceils, cires, clerk, cries, icker, keirs, kiers, licks, liers, liker, likes, recks, relic, rices, ricks, riels, riles, siker, skier, skirl, slice, slick, slier. | |
-3 letters: ceil, cels, cire, cris, elks, ices, ilks, ires, irks, isle, keir, kier, kirs, kris, leis, leks, lice, lick, lier, lies. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-i-k-l-r-s" | |
+1 letter: brickles, clerkish, clickers, clinkers, crinkles, flickers, prickles, sickerly, sicklier, slickers, stickler, strickle, ticklers, trickles. | |
+2 letters: clerkship, firelocks, lickerish, limericks, pickerels, rockslide, screwlike, sticklers, strickled, strickles. | |
+3 letters: backslider, clerkliest, clerkships, crackliest, crinkliest, flackeries, freckliest, interlocks, kiloparsec, prickliest, rockslides, saucerlike, silkscreen, silverback, stockpiler, superslick, trickliest, trucklines. | |
+4 letters: backsliders, blacklister, bootlickers, brickfields, bricklayers, cuckoldries, forcepslike, kiloparsecs, lickerishly, linebackers, ostrichlike, politickers, prickliness, quicksilver, rickettsial, silkscreens, silverbacks, stockpilers. | |
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