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slicked, ppl. a.|slɪkt|
[f. slick v.]
a. In various senses of the vb. Also with back, down.
1594O. B. Quest. Profit. Concern. M j b, These Boare pigs and Beare whelpes,..for all their slickt coates and smooth tongues, vnderstand not what courteous behauiour and gentle deeds meane. 1629Z. Boyd Last Battell 952 A slicked tongue and a slacke hand keepe other companie. 1674Cotton Compl. Gamester (1680) 85 The rest..will slip off from the slickt Card. 1704Lond. Gaz. No. 4067/8 Lost.., a yellow coloured slick'd Greyhound Bitch. 1921E. O'Neill Diff'rent 1, in Emperor Jones 215 His hair [is] wet and slicked in a part. 1937A. Christie Murder in Mews 163 It was the good-looking young man with the slicked-back hair who had spoken. 1949E. de Mauny Huntsman in his Career ii. 128 There was dandruff on the collar from his slicked-back, fair hair. 1964Economist 20 June 1365/2 Mr McNamara's slicked-down patent leather hair. 1975B. Garfield Death Sentence (1976) xi. 57 Latins, with slicked hair. 1976N. Thornburg Cutter & Bone iv. 86 He had a distinctly Arabic look about him, slicked-down black hair. 1977Listener 17 Nov. 653/2 People with slicked-back hair..jitter⁓bugging round the radio.
b. With up: dressed up, smart, elegant; also fig., made more sophisticated. orig. U.S.
1836Haliburton Clockm. (1862) 133 Now this grand house has only two rooms down stairs, that are altogether slicked up and finished off complete. 1867Atlantic Monthly Jan. 109/2 Is this my farm?... It looks more slicked up than ever it used to. 1928J. Galsworthy Swan Song i. xi. 81 Montpellier Square..was all slicked up since he was last there... Builders and decorators must have done well lately. 1957R. Hoggart Uses of Literacy xi. 276 The new-style popular publications..are pallid but slicked-up extensions even of nineteenth-century sensationalism. 1979Tucson Mag. Apr. 34/1 In the same wave came..the new City Hall and the slicked-up El Presidio Park. |