1. [N. Amer] A waterproof garment made from cotton fabric treated with oil and pigment
   "The fisherman donned his slicker jacket before heading out to sea";
   - oilskin
    
2. [informal] Someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
   "The slicker convinced people to invest in his fake company";
   - deceiver, trickster
    
3. [informal] A person with good manners and stylish clothing
   "The city slicker stood out among the rural locals"

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"

Derived forms: slickers

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

Type of: mac [Brit, informal], macintosh [Brit], mack [Brit, informal], mackintosh [Brit], man of the world, offender, sophisticate, wrongdoer

Encyclopedia: Slicker, Michael