1. Free from clumsiness; precisely or deftly executed
   "The basketball player made a slick catch";
   - clean, neat
    
2. 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
    
3. Superficially impressive, but lacking depth and attention to the true complexities of a subject
   "a slick advertising campaign";
   - facile
    
4. Having only superficial plausibility
   "a slick commercial";
   - glib, pat
    
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. A film of oil or garbage floating on top of water
   "An oil slick from the tanker spill threatened the coastal wildlife"
    
2. A slippery smoothness
   "he could feel the slick of the tiller";
   - slickness, slipperiness, slip
    
3. A trowel used to make a surface slick
   "The plasterer used a slick to smooth the wet cement"
    
4. [N. Amer, informal] A magazine printed on good quality paper
   "The photos in the slick caught everyone's attention";
   - slick magazine [informal], glossy [informal]

1. Make slick or smooth
   "She slicked her hair back before the interview";
   - sleek
    
2. Give a smooth and glossy appearance
   "slick one's hair"; "slick down one's hair";
   - slick down, sleek down

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

See also: adroit, bright, plausible, slippery, slippy [Brit, informal], superficial

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

Encyclopedia: Slick, Oklahoma