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say it: slik
slick is an adjective, noun and verb meaning "made slick by e.g. ice or grease". It carries 11 recorded senses.
made slick by e.g. ice or grease
“sidewalks slick with ice”
“roads are slickest when rain has just started and hasn't had time to wash away the oil”
superficially impressive, but lacking depth and attention to the true complexities of a subject
“too facile a solution for so complex a problem”
“it was a neat plan, but bound to fail”
“a slick advertising campaign”
a slippery smoothness
“he could feel the slickness of the tiller”
a magazine printed on good quality paper
a trowel used to make a surface slick
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for slick come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.