slicker

One who or that which slicks.

A waterproof coat or jacket.

A person who is perceived as clever, urbane and possibly disreputable. (abbreviation of city slicker.)

A swindler or conman.

A symmetrical knife with a handle at each end, used for burnishing leather.

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.

I carefully watched his quick emotions as they slickered in his eyes before he hid them.

To con or hoodwink.

I knew he had been slickered again.

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.

The bends are rinsed well and slickered on both the sides to remove excess of water.

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.

To spread mashed manure on fields as a form of fertilization.