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slickens U.S.|ˈslɪkɪns|
[? f. slick n.2]
(See quots.)
1882Cent. Mag. XXV. 337 It is the lighter soils of the hydraulic mines and the pulverized matter from the quartz-mills of the mining region which constitute ‘slickens’. 1894New York Tribune 1 Feb. 1/3 All of this [500 acres] will be covered with ‘slickens’, washings from the mines in the mountains, and thus be rendered valueless. |