slick
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- noun
- /slɪk/
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mancha de petróleo
- The streets were bare, except for a slick of black ice.
- oil slick
Examples
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That oil slick we saw was just this big sticky mess in the water and streaks and smudges.
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Once pristine, all the surfaces have been coated in a dark gray slick.
Fiction book (1997) -
And if you look closely, they have these sort of like oil slick finish.
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You ever even seen an oil slick, Poncho?
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The slick began to wash up onto 15 miles of beaches along the heavily populated Southern California coast.
Academic text (1994) -
The resulting oil slick spanned an area just larger than the size of the island of Hawaii.
Blog text (21) -
There's just a slick of oil and a steady stream of bubbles.
Fiction book (2000) -
Beyond the edge of the burning oil slick, a man sits in the lifeboat looking at his comrades.
Fiction book (1995) -
More recently, my son-in-law Rajinder died when his scooter slipped from beneath him on an oil slick.
Fiction book (2001) -
The oil spilled into the ocean created a thick slick that spread across the water's surface.
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- Archaic
A magazine printed on shiny good quality paper with many photos and bright design
How Slippery
Surface Forms
Etymology
An oil slick on water is named from the same old meaning of slick as 'smooth' and 'slippery', because oil spreads into a shiny, slippery patch on the surface. So an oil slick is a smooth, slippery layer on the water.