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slick
noun- a car tyre without a tread, used in drag racing US
Usually heard in the plural. - Big Cheaters: Stock cars with modifications on the original engine such as multi-carburetion. Racing “slicks” permitted. — Fremont Drag Strip, Guide to Drag Racing, 1960
- Chrome reversed rims with whitewall slicks / And it turns a quarter mile in one-o-six. — Brian Wilson and Roger Christian (recorded by the Beach Boys), Cherry, Cherry Coupe, 1963
- As the car moves away from the starting line, the slicks begin to bite the road and the dragster accelerates very rapidly. — Ed Radlauer, Drag Racing Pix Dix, p. 51, 1970
- a glossy magazine US, 1953
- Sometimes pieces fluttered rejection slips from slick to fanzine[.] — Greil Marcus, Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung, 1987
- in pool, a skilled player who bets on his own ability US, 1990
- — Mike Shamos, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Billiards, p. 216, 1993
- a field of criminal expertise US
- — William K. Bentley and James M. Corbett, Prison Slang, p. 34, 1992
- an unarmed aircraft US, 1990
- The true transport model, which hauls seven to nine men into battle, is called “The Slick,” technically “The Delta” or UF-1D. — Elaine Shepard, The Doom Pussy, p. 4, 1967
- The slick had just landed, and Gilmore pointed to the machine gun so that the others would silence it. — David Reed, Up Front in Vietnam, p. 55, 1967
- This morning they were inserted by chopper. The slicks moved them inland, keeping about 1500 feet. — Ronald J. Glasser, 365 Days, p. 30, 1971
- They were called “slicks” because, except for an M-60 machine gun in each cargo door, they were unarmed. — Dennis Marvicsin and Jerold Greenfield, Maverick, p. 36, 1990
- a helicopter used for troop transport US
- This morning they were inserted by chopper. The slicks moved them inland, keeping about 1500 feet. — Ronald J. Glasser, 365 Days, p. 30, 1971
- a fashionable, admired person US
- “I remember when all the slicks used to come in here,” Ernie remarked to me. — L.H. Whittemore, Cop!, p. 131, 1969
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