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1. [N. Amer] A macintosh made from cotton fabric treated with oil and pigment to make it waterproof
   - oilskin
    
2. [informal] A person with good manners and stylish clothing
    
3. [informal] Someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
   - deceiver, cheat, cheater, trickster, beguiler

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"

Derived forms: slickers

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

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

Encyclopedia: Slicker, Michael