slickering

Verb

slicker (third-person singular simple present slickers, present participle slickering, simple past and past participle slickered)

1. To slither, as on a slick surface.
   • My good lady wife invited many and often her friends to a dish of cauliflower cooked as it ought to be and finely seasoned, and you ought to see how they slickered their tongues; it looked like appetite all over their faces.1883, Transactions of the Illinois State Horticultural Society
2. To con or hoodwink.
   • I knew he had been slickered again.1979, John Greenway, Susan Perl, Tales from the United States, →ISBN, page 9
3. To use a slicker on.
   • ...carbon bisulphide, chloride of sulphur and sulphur precipitating substances, the surplus rubber adhering to the hide being then slickered off and finished with a cloth dipped in a rubber solvent.1911, The Canadian Patent Office Record and Register of Copyrights and Trade marks, Volume 38
4. To smooth or slick.
   • Anyway, to make a long story short, here was this young kin of mine dressed in a white shirt and shoes and pale blue shorts standin' there with his hair slickered down, starin' at me.2008, Preston Wilson, Tales of Finnigan LeBlanc, Prince of Mushrat, →ISBN, page 42
5. To spread mashed manure on fields as a form of fertilization.

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