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Is slick a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word slick is a Scrabble US word. The word slick is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

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Is slick a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word slick is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:

S1L1I1C3K5

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Yes. The word slick is a Words With Friends word. The word slick is worth 13 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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5-letter words (2 found)

LICKS,SLICK,

4-letter words (6 found)

ICKS,ILKS,LICK,LISK,SICK,SILK,

3-letter words (8 found)

CIS,ICK,ILK,KIS,LIS,SIC,SIK,SKI,

2-letter words (4 found)

IS,KI,LI,SI,

You can make 20 words from slick according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of slick

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Definitions and meaning of slick

slick

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /slɪk/
  • Rhymes: -ɪk

Etymology 1

From Middle English slicke, slike, slyke, from Old English slīc (“sleek, smooth; crafty, cunning, slick”), from Proto-Germanic *slīkaz (“sleek, smooth”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleyg-, *sleyǵ- (“to glide, smooth, spread”). Akin to Dutch sluik, dialectal Dutch sleek (“even, smooth”), Old Norse slíkr (“sleek, smooth”), Old English slician (“to make sleek, smooth, or glossy”).

Adjective

slick (comparative slicker, superlative slickest)

  1. Slippery or smooth due to a covering of liquid; often used to describe appearances.
  2. Appearing expensive or sophisticated.
  3. Superficially convincing but actually untrustworthy.
  4. (often sarcastic) Clever, making an apparently hard task easy.
  5. (US, West Coast slang) Extraordinarily great or special.
  6. Sleek; smooth.
Derived terms
  • slick as a whistle
Translations

Noun

slick (plural slicks)

  1. A covering of liquid, particularly oil.
  2. (by extension, hydrodynamics, US, dated) A rapidly-expanding ring of dark water, resembling an oil slick, around the site of a large underwater explosion at shallow depth, marking the progress through the water of the shock wave generated by the explosion.
  3. Someone who is clever and untrustworthy.
  4. A tool used to make something smooth or even.
  5. (sports, automotive) A tire with a smooth surface instead of a tread pattern, often used in auto racing.
    Synonyms: slick tire, slick tyre
  6. (US, military slang) A helicopter.
  7. (printing) A camera-ready image to be used by a printer. The "slick" is photographed to produce a negative image which is then used to burn a positive offset plate or other printing device.
  8. (publishing, slang) A glossy magazine.
  9. A wide paring chisel used in joinery.
  10. (fandom slang) In omegaverse fiction, the copious, lubricating bodily fluid produced by an omega in heat.
    • 2017, "Tessa on Ice", quoted in Marianne Gunderson, "What is an omega?: Rewriting sex and gender in omegaverse fanfiction", thesis submitted to the University of Oslo, page 41:
      I spent two fucking days locked up in that hotel room, miserable and hating myself and drenched in my own slick!
    • 2019, Tessa Barone, "Just Go Find Yourself a Nice Alpha: Gender and Consent in Supernatural Fandom's Alpha/Beta/Omega Universe", thesis submitted to Oregon State University, page 32:
      For his ruts, Castiel orders slick from a single donor, who is, unbeknownst to him, Dean, who lives at the Roadhouse and is in contact with many of his colleagues and rescuees.
    • 2019, Chris van der Vegt, "The Second Genders: Utopia and Dystopia in​ Stranger Things Omegaverse Fanfiction", thesis submitted to Utrecht University, page 23:
      She observed another parallel to menstruation, namely the abundance of 'slick' that Omegas produce when they go into heat, which mainly functions as an anal lubricant.
Coordinate terms

(phenomenon from underwater explosion):

  • crack
Derived terms
Translations

Verb

slick (third-person singular simple present slicks, present participle slicking, simple past and past participle slicked)

  1. To make slick.
Related terms
Translations

Adverb

slick (not comparable)

  1. (colloquial) Alternative form of sleek (“with ease and dexterity”)
    (Can we find and add a quotation of William Le Queux to this entry?)
    We're just following a couple of crooks who've got slick away in that two-funnelled boat yonder, and we mean to keep in touch with them till they land.

Etymology 2

Noun

slick

  1. Alternative form of schlich

Further reading

  • Jonathon Green (2024) “slick n.1”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Anagrams

  • Licks, licks

Source: wiktionary.org