sleek back/down
— phrasal verb with sleek uk/sliːk/us/sliːk/verb
to make something such as hair smooth, shiny, and flat:
Before going to the party, he sleeked back his hair with hair gel.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Making things more or less smooth or straight
- bunch
- bunch (sth) up
- coarsen
- collapse
- creased
- crinkle
- crumple
- fold
- furl
- pucker
- pumice stone
- roll sth up
- roughen
- sand
- screw
- sleek
- smooth
- steady
- straighten
- straighten up
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