slippery dick

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   small wrasse of tropical Atlantic

   SynonymsHalicoeres bivittatus

   Broaderwrasse

   Part ofHalicoeres

Questions about slippery dick

What does slippery dick mean?

slippery dick means "small wrasse of tropical Atlantic".

What is another word for slippery dick?

Close synonyms include Halicoeres bivittatus. 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 slippery dick a common word?

slippery dick 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.