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slickster

slickster noun: a slick person.

Noun

slickster (plural slicksters)

  1. (derogatory) A slick person.
    • Alice and Neil’s wide-eyed, blushing, chaste relationship is pure puppy love, and when that slickster Apollo is pierced by the arrows of Eros (Aphrodite’s son, who inexplicably became a bit of a Jesus freak somewhere along the way) and takes a fancy to Alice — well, all hell breaks loose.2008 January 13, Alexandra Jacobs, “The House of Myth”, in New York Times

Forms of slickster

pluralslicksters

Origin of slickster

From slick + -ster.

Questions about slickster

What does slickster mean?
Slickster means a slick person.
What part of speech is slickster?
Slickster is a noun.
What is the plural of slickster?
The plural of slickster is slicksters.

Words near slickster in the dictionary

  1. slickseed fuzzybeans
  2. slickspot
  3. slickspots
  4. slicksta
  5. slickstas
  6. slickster
  7. slicksters
  8. slickstone
  9. slickstones
  10. slicktop
  11. slicktops

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