slick magazine
- noun
- /slɪk ˈmæɡəˌzin/
- Archaic
:
revista glossy
- She picked up a slick magazine at the store, impressed by its stunning photography and design.
Examples
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She'd just read that recently in a slick magazine someone had left in the hospital.
Fiction book (1994) -
I'd pick out a dozen or so from those slick magazines that paid living-wage prices for short stories until television destroyed both them and national literacy.
Fiction book (2001) -
The several hundred piñatas planted in Tucson had grown into great, branching trees of human interest, which bore fruit in the form of articles with names like "This Art's Not for Breaking" and "What Piñatas!" in slick magazines all over the Southwest.
Fiction book (1991) -
After browsing through several slick magazines, he decided to subscribe to the one featuring travel destinations.
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The designer's work was featured in a renowned slick magazine that highlighted contemporary art.
Synonyms
3
3.7
A magazine printed on shiny paper with many photos and ads
3
3.2
A thin printed book that has shiny pages and many photos
3
6.9
A shiny magazine with many photos and ads
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Morphology
The meaning 'a magazine printed on high-quality, glossy paper' is directly derived from combining 'slick' (glossy, smooth, high-quality) with 'magazine' (a periodical). This is a straightforward adjective + noun composition following normal English compounding patterns and is likely recognizable to a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
The term slick magazine comes from the word slick, which means smooth and shiny. Early magazines printed on very smooth, shiny paper were called 'slick' because they looked better than cheap, rough papers. That's why slick magazine now means a glossy, 'high-quality' magazine.