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Slicker

noun

A macintosh made from cotton fabric treated with oil and pigment to make it waterproof. Synonym: oilskin.

A person with good manners and stylish clothing.

Someone who leads you to believe something that is not true. Synonyms: beguiler, cheat, cheater, deceiver, trickster.

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"Slicker" Quotes from Famous Books

... guess it's all right to push in with that bunch, but there's a slicker way of doing it for those that are 'next.' Of course, it's not according to Hoyle. There's a little side-door where you can get in ahead of the gang. See that fellow, Ten-Dollar Jim they call him; well, they say he can work ...

— The Trail of '98 - A Northland Romance • Robert W. Service

... it hands him. Well? This is how I figger. Just how you played him up I can't say. But it's his job to juggle around with figgers same as it's yours, and if you beat him out of ten million dollars you must have played a slicker hand than him. All of which says you must have got more to windward of the law than him—and he knows it. Why, it's easy. The feller who has the money power to hold the crown jewels of Sweden from falling into the hands of yahoo politicians out to grab the things they haven't the brains to come ...

— The Man in the Twilight • Ridgwell Cullum

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