Definition of "slicker"

There are numerous grooming products on the market, particularly for longhaired cats – for example, rakes, slickers and detangle sprays, many of which claim to make grooming as simple and safe as possible.

2009, Vicky Halls, The Complete Cat, page 225

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.

1883, Transactions of the Illinois State Horticultural Society

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

2013, Quinn Higgins, The Waiting Room, page 41

That's me, a holy greased pig, slickering away out of the fumbling hands of evil.

2015, Joshua Gaylord, When We Were Animals

1976, Forrest Carter, Rennard Strickland, The Education of Little Tree, page It was at the crossroads store where I got slickered out of my fifty cents.

I knew he had been slickered again.

1979, John Greenway, Susan Perl, Tales from the United States, page 9

...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.

1911, The Canadian Patent Office Record and Register of Copyrights and Trade marks, Volume 38

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

1962, Central Leather Research Institute (India), Leather Science - Volume 9, page 209

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.

2008, Preston Wilson, Tales of Finnigan LeBlanc, Prince of Mushrat, page 42