city slicker

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   a city dweller with sophisticated manners and clothing

   Synonymscity boy

   Broaderslicker

Questions about city slicker

What does city slicker mean?

city slicker means "a city dweller with sophisticated manners and clothing".

What is another word for city slicker?

Close synonyms include city boy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is city slicker a common word?

city slicker is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.