slick down

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English

Verb

slick down (third-person singular simple present slicks down, present participle slicking down, simple past and past participle slicked down)

  1. To make hair flat by putting oil, water, etc. on it.
    • 1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, 1993 edition, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 96:
      His unruly hair was slicked down with water, and as Jessamy introduced him to Miss Brindle his face assumed a cherubic innocence which would immediately have aroused the suspicions of anyone who knew him.
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