[syn: deceiver, cheat, cheater, trickster, beguiler, slicker]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Slicker \Slick"er\, n.
That which makes smooth or sleek. Specifically:
(a) A kind of burnisher for leather.
(b) (Founding) A curved tool for smoothing the surfaces of a
mold after the withdrawal of the pattern.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Slicker \Slick"er\, n.
A waterproof coat. [Western U.S.]
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
slicker
n 1: a macintosh made from cotton fabric treated with oil and
pigment to make it waterproof [syn: oilskin, slicker]
2: a person with good manners and stylish clothing
3: someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
[syn: deceiver, cheat, cheater, trickster,
beguiler, slicker]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
50 Moby Thesaurus words for "slicker":
abradant, abrasive, bunco artist, bunco steerer, burnish,
cardsharp, cardsharper, carpetbagger, cheat, cheater, city slicker,
con artist, con man, confidence man, cosmopolitan, cosmopolite,
crimp, defrauder, diddler, double-dealer, flimflammer, gypper,
horse coper, horse trader, jackleg, land pirate, land shark,
land-grabber, lawn-roller, man of experience, man-about-town,
mortgage shark, mountebank, pettifogger, pitchman, polish, roller,
shark, sharp, sharper, sharpie, shortchanger, shyster, sleeker,
smooth, smoother, sophisticate, spieler, swindler, trickster