sleek down

1. 1.

   give a smooth and glossy appearance

   “slick one's hair”

   Synonymsslickslick down

   Broadercomb

Questions about sleek down

What does sleek down mean?

sleek down means "give a smooth and glossy appearance".

What is another word for sleek down?

Close synonyms include slick, slick down. 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 sleek down a common word?

sleek down 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.