I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
city slicker
oil slick
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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slick paper
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He's got a bunch of slick lawyers to get him out of paying the $11 million he owes us.
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I don't trust her. She's too slick .
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Thanks to O'Neil's slick fielding, the Giants won 3-1.
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They couldn't climb up the slick lime walls of the pit.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As we all know, nomatterhow slick and glossy a campaign, it will never sell the unsellable.
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It's so slick you could be forgiven for thinking it's a close-ratio box.
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Not up on my tribes, I reckon, but you can tell him it was a slick operation.
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Printed in the shrill neons of commercial art, these leering posters document the slick , creeping hucksterism of contemporary life.
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Scores of new titles, with slick covers and graphics, fill the shelves.
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She forgets the steals, the rebounds, the slick ballhandling.
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The gear change is slick and rapid.
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The going was steep and treacherously slick in places, and Paige had all her concentration centred on staying upright.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
oil
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He said oil slicks from the stricken leviathan still sometimes marred the bay.
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Children were swimming in the canal amid shimmering oil slicks while their fathers fished from their living rooms.
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Other benefits include the detection of oil slicks and other pollution and detailed information about land use through the seasons.
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Her coffee had an oil slick on top.
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This problem to some extent overshadowed the oil slick as an environmental issue.
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Their task will be to help otters and seals which have been contaminated by the seven mile long oil slick .
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But the biggest danger comes from humans. Oil slicks , overhead cables and pollution are all death traps for birds.
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The race ended in chaos when three riders drove into an oil slick and skidded off.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Below a slick of oil hovered clouds of undissolved cream.
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Children were swimming in the canal amid shimmering oil slicks while their fathers fished from their living rooms.
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He said oil slicks from the stricken leviathan still sometimes marred the bay.
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The slick is one of the largest, and potentially most damaging, ever to have been recorded.
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The Domesday Group had also predicted the terrible slime slick to which Slampacker was referring.
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The stench of the fuel floated above the pond Monday and rainbow slicks could be seen near its mouth.
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This problem to some extent overshadowed the oil slick as an environmental issue.
III. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He painted it with several coats of varnish to slick it up.
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Saunders' body was twitching violently as his blood leaked out in dying jets, slicking the walkway.
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The rain grew heavier, slicking the ground.