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slicker
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun slicker has 3 senses
- slicker(n = noun.artifact) oilskin - a macintosh made from cotton fabric treated with oil and pigment to make it waterproof; Array is a kind of mac, macintosh, mack, mackintosh
- slicker(n = noun.person) Array - a person with good manners and stylish clothing; Array has particulars: city boy, city slicker
- slicker(n = noun.person) beguiler, cheat, cheater, deceiver, trickster - someone who leads you to believe something that is not true; Array is a kind of offender, wrongdoer
is a kind of man of the world, sophisticate
has particulars: bluffer, four-flusher, chiseler, chiseller, defrauder, gouger, grifter, scammer, swindler, decoy, steerer, dodger, fox, slyboots, betrayer, double-crosser, double-dealer, traitor, two-timer, defalcator, embezzler, peculator, falsifier, finagler, wangler, counterfeiter, forger, fortune hunter, figurehead, front, front man, nominal head, straw man, strawman, dissembler, dissimulator, hypocrite, phoney, phony, pretender, imitator, impersonator, fake, faker, fraud, imposter, impostor, pretender, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham, shammer, liar, prevaricator, misleader, charlatan, mountebank, obscurantist, sandbagger, two-timer, utterer
CIDE DICTIONARY
slicker, n.
That which makes smooth or sleek. [1913 Webster]
slicker, n.
A waterproof coat. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
slicker, n. US 1 colloq. a a plausible rogue. b a smart and sophisticated city-dweller (cf. city slicker).
2 a raincoat of smooth material.
2 a raincoat of smooth material.
THESAURUS
slicker
abradant, abrasive, bunco artist, bunco steerer, burnish, cardsharp, cardsharper, carpetbagger, cheat, cheater, city slicker, con artist, con man, confidence man, cosmopolitan, cosmopolite, crimp, defrauder, diddler, double-dealer, flimflammer, gypper, horse coper, horse trader, jackleg, land pirate, land shark, land-grabber, lawn-roller, man of experience, man-about-town, mortgage shark, mountebank, pettifogger, pitchman, polish, roller, shark, sharp, sharper, sharpie, shortchanger, shyster, sleeker, smooth, smoother, sophisticate, spieler, swindler, trickster
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