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slicker
noun- a world-wise, sophisticated, urban person US, 1900
- He sure wasn’t scared at all, and he acted like a slicker. — Chester Gould, Dick Tracy Meets the Night Crawler, p. 29, 1945
- “Phil is a real slicker. He’s been holding out on us all these years,” Beatrice said. — James T. Farrell, Saturday Night, p. 23, 1947
- “You know what you are?” she said, huskily. “You’re a slicker.” — Jim Thompson, Savage Night, p. 10, 1953
- His neck was made for a noose, but no noose will replace the gaudy cravate around that slicker’s neck. — Willard Motley, Let No Man Write My Epitaph, p. 164, 1958
- I tried to tell him a long time ago that these so-called slickers and throughbreds don’t mean him no good. — Nathan Heard, Howard Street, p. 36, 1968
- a police officer US
- Lookouts shouted warnings, yelling to the dealers inside, using slang terms for police: “Blue and white on State! Slickers on State! I still got slickers on State[.]” — Chicago Tribune, p. C11, 12 April 1998
- a stolen car with all identification markings erased or removed US
- — Hyman E. Goldin et al., Dictionary of American Underworld Lingo, p. 197, 1950
- an oversized, wide, smooth tyre used in racing US
- — Good Housekeeping, p. 143, September 1958: ‘Hot-rod terms for teen-age girls’
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