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oil slicks

oil slicks is the plural of oil slick.

Meaning of oil slick

Noun

oil slick (plural oil slicks)

  1. A thin film of oil floating on the surface of water, especially one that has leaked or been discharged from a ship.
    • Near-synonyms: oil spot, oilpatch
    Synonyms:
    oil spot, oilpatch

Questions about oil slicks

What is oil slicks the plural of?
Oil slicks is the plural of oil slick.

Words near oil slicks in the dictionary

  1. oil sand
  2. oil sands
  3. oil shale
  4. oil shales
  5. oil slick
  6. oil slicks
  7. oil spill
  8. oil spills
  9. oil spot
  10. oil spots
  11. oil spotting

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Adapted from Wiktionary: oil slicks (page history and authors); oil slick (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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