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1. A film of oil or garbage floating on top of water
    
2. A slippery smoothness
   "he could feel the slick of the tiller";
   - slickness, slipperiness, slip
    
3. A trowel used to make a surface slick
    
4. [N. Amer] A magazine printed on good quality paper
   - slick magazine, glossy

1. Superficially impressive, but lacking depth and attention to the true complexities of a subject
   "a slick advertising campaign";
   - facile, neat
    
2. Having only superficial plausibility
   "a slick commercial";
   - glib, pat
    
3. Having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light; being of a smooth, soft and lustrous quality, resembling silk
   "slick seals and otters";
   - satiny, sleek, silken, silky, silklike
    
4. Marked by skill in deception
   "a slick evasive answer";
   - crafty, cunning, dodgy [Brit, informal], foxy, guileful, knavish, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily
    
5. Made slick by e.g. ice or grease
   "pavements slick with ice"; "roads are slickest when rain has just started and hasn't had time to wash away the oil"

1. Make slick or smooth
   - sleek
    
2. Give a smooth and glossy appearance
   "slick one's hair"; "slick down one's hair";
   - slick down, sleek down

Derived forms: slicked, slicker, slicks, slickest, slicking

See also: artful, bright, plausible, slippery, slippy, superficial

Type of: comb, comb out, disentangle, film, mag, magazine, polish, shine, smooth, smoothen, smoothness, trowel

Encyclopedia: Slick, OK