slickster

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

slick +‎ -ster

Noun[edit]

slickster (plural slicksters)

  1. (chiefly derogatory) A slick person.
    • 2008 January 13, Alexandra Jacobs, “The House of Myth”, in New York Times[1]:
      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.

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