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slicking up

slicking up is the present participle and gerund of slick up.

Meaning of slick up

Verb

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

  1. (US, archaic, transitive) To clean up or organize (something).

Questions about slicking up

What is slicking up the present participle and gerund of?
Slicking up is the present participle and gerund of slick up.

Words near slicking up in the dictionary

  1. slickhead
  2. slickheads
  3. slicking
  4. slicking back
  5. slicking down
  6. slicking up
  7. slickings
  8. slickly
  9. slickness
  10. slicknesses
  11. slickrock

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Adapted from Wiktionary: slicking up (page history and authors); slick up (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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