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slicknesses

slicknesses is the plural of slickness.

Meaning of slickness

Noun

slickness (plural slicknesses)

  1. The property of being slick.
    • The train was well filled, with quite an amount of intermediate business; but station staff and passengers alike seemed ready enough to "look lively", and the result was a general "slickness" in working that augers^([sic]) well for the future.1959 June, O. S. Nock, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 408

Questions about slicknesses

What is slicknesses the plural of?
Slicknesses is the plural of slickness.

Words near slicknesses in the dictionary

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

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