slick

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It looks slick, and works exactly how I think it should.

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Quick take

a slippery smoothness; "he could feel the slickness of the tiller"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of slick gathered in one view.

noun

a slippery smoothness; "he could feel the slickness of the tiller"

noun

a magazine printed on good quality paper

noun

a film of oil or garbage floating on top of water

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for slick.

noun

a slippery smoothness; "he could feel the slickness of the tiller"

noun

a magazine printed on good quality paper

noun

a film of oil or garbage floating on top of water

noun

a trowel used to make a surface slick

verb

make slick or smooth

verb

give a smooth and glossy appearance; "slick one's hair"

adjective

made slick by e.g. ice or grease; "sidewalks slick with ice"; "roads are slickest when rain has just started and hasn't had time to wash away the oil"

adjective

having only superficial plausibility; "glib promises"; "a slick commercial"

adjective

having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light; "glossy auburn hair"; "satiny gardenia petals"; "sleek black fur"; "silken eyelashes"; "silky skin"; "a silklike fabric"; "slick seals and otters"

See also: satiny, sleek, silken, silky, silklike

adjective

marked by skill in deception; "cunning men often pass for wise"; "deep political machinations"; "a foxy scheme"; "a slick evasive answer"; "sly as a fox"; "tricky Dick"; "a wily old attorney"

Example sentences

It looks slick, and works exactly how I think it should.

It may not be as slick as Facebook, but I like where this train is headed.

WarpPrism can't be the work of a lone hacker, it must have a whole "slick marketing team" behind it!

We want this to go away soon, and Franois Marier has suggested a pretty slick way to get us there.

It's a challenge; any designer can slap together a slick looking website.

$75,000 - $1,000,000, sold to a handful of rich big companies using a team of slick salespeople that do six months of intense PowerPoint just to get one goddamn sale.

The fundamental idea is good, their current execution is extremely slick, and their immediate plans[1] look achievable.

When the general public votes with their wallet in a landslide victory for Apple, we blame them for being easily manipulable by slick ad campaigns and shiny baubles.

Take a look at path drawing games like Scramble with Friends to see how they handle backtracking.+ I understand that advertisements are ugly and you want to keep your game very slick and polished, but... you are leaving a lot of money on the table.

People who spend time here should know that, even though the reddit posters cluelessly assume that Teevox lives on with a team of coders and a "slick marketing team".Andrew went back to school but Jiggity decided to keep on plugging away at some side projects.

Still, there are peripheral functions like business development, marketing, intellectual property, privacy, policy, etc., where you can always find a few deadbeats that talk slick, but don't seem to have much to show for their time except hiring more people and making a few high impact appearances at meetings.

Heres why this is awesome: - The name Unity finally makes perfect sense - Phone can expand into a tablet can expand into a desktop - larger form factor can run smaller form factor apps - app switcher is slick - Canonical finally learned how to use all the bull shit motivational words that apple uses to inspire people - OS level tie ins to social services - Still open source I'm excited to use it, and I'm excited to help.