SLICKER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does slicker mean? 

• SLICKER (noun)
  The noun SLICKER has 3 senses:

1. a macintosh made from cotton fabric treated with oil and pigment to make it waterproof

2. a person with good manners and stylish clothing

3. someone who leads you to believe something that is not true

  Familiarity information: SLICKER used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SLICKER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A macintosh made from cotton fabric treated with oil and pigment to make it waterproof

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

oilskin; slicker

Hypernyms ("slicker" is a kind of...):

mac; macintosh; mack; mackintosh (a waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A person with good manners and stylish clothing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("slicker" is a kind of...):

man of the world; sophisticate (a worldly-wise person)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "slicker"):

city boy; city slicker (a city dweller with sophisticated manners and clothing)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Someone who leads you to believe something that is not true

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

beguiler; cheat; cheater; deceiver; slicker; trickster

Hypernyms ("slicker" is a kind of...):

offender; wrongdoer (a person who transgresses moral or civil law)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "slicker"):

chiseler; chiseller; defrauder; gouger; grifter; scammer; swindler (a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud)

utterer (someone who circulates forged banknotes or counterfeit coins)

two-timer (someone who deceives a lover or spouse by carrying on a sexual relationship with somebody else)

sandbagger (someone who deceives you about his true nature or intent in order to take advantage of you)

obscurantist (a person who is deliberately vague)

charlatan; mountebank (a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes)

misleader (someone who leads astray (often deliberately))

liar; prevaricator (a person who has lied or who lies repeatedly)

fake; faker; fraud; imposter; impostor; pretender; pseud; pseudo; role player; sham; shammer (a person who makes deceitful pretenses)

imitator; impersonator (someone who (fraudulently) assumes the appearance of another)

dissembler; dissimulator; hypocrite; phoney; phony; pretender (a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives)

figurehead; front; front man; nominal head; straw man; strawman (a person used as a cover for some questionable activity)

fortune hunter (a person who seeks wealth through marriage)

counterfeiter; forger (someone who makes copies illegally)

finagler; wangler (a deceiver who uses crafty misleading methods)

falsifier (someone who falsifies)

defalcator; embezzler; peculator (someone who violates a trust by taking (money) for his own use)

betrayer; double-crosser; double-dealer; traitor; two-timer (a person who says one thing and does another)

dodger; fox; slyboots (a shifty deceptive person)

decoy; steerer (a beguiler who leads someone into danger (usually as part of a plot))

bluffer; four-flusher (a person who tries to bluff other people)