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slickness

Variant of slick

transitive verb

  1. to make sleek, glossy, or smooth
  2. Informal to make smart, neat, or tidy: usually with up

adjective

  1. sleek; glossy; smooth
  2. slippery; oily, as a surface
  3. accomplished; adept; clever; ingenious
  4. Informal clever in deception or trickery; deceptively plausible; smooth: a slick alibi
  5. Informal having or showing skill in composition or technique but little depth or literary significance: a slick style of writing
  6. Slang excellent, fine, enjoyable, attractive, etc.

noun

    1. a smooth area on the surface of water, as resulting from a layer of oil
    2. an oily layer on the surface of water
    3. a slippery, oily area on the surface of a road
  1. something used for smoothing and polishing, as any of various tools with broad, flat blades
  2. Informal a magazine printed on paper with a glossy finish

adverb

smoothly, cleverly, deftly, easily, etc.

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