slippery

  • 91slippery — adjective a) Of a surface, having low friction, often due to being covered in a non viscous liquid, and therefore hard to grip, hard to stand on without falling, etc. b) Evasive; difficult to pin down. Syn: greasy, slick, slimy, slippy …

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  • 92slippery — slip·per·y || slɪpÉ™rɪ adj. causing or tending to cause slipping; smooth, tending to slip; tending to escape; unstable or delicate; shifty, cunning …

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  • 93slippery — a. 1. Smooth, glib. 2. Unstable, uncertain, changeable, mutable, unsteady, shaky, insecure, perilous, unsafe. 3. Treacherous, perfidious, faithless, knavish, dishonest, false, cunning, shifty, elusive. 4. Wanton, incontinent, unchaste, false,… …

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  • 94slippery — adj 1. slick, oily, greasy; smooth, sleek, glassy, glossy, skiddy, icy; soapy, waxed, buttery, unc tuous, lubricated, lubricous, mucous, synovial. 2. hard to grasp, hard to hold, transient, transitory, passing; temporal, ephemeral, fleeting,… …

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  • 95slippery — slip·pery …

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  • 96Universidad Slippery Rock — Slippery Rock University Lugar designado por el censo de los Estados Unidos …

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  • 97slippery elm — noun Date: 1748 a large leaved elm (Ulmus rubra syn. U. fulva) of eastern and central North America that has hard wood and fragrant mucilaginous inner bark; also the bark …

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  • 98slippery slope — noun Date: 1951 a course of action that seems to lead inevitably from one action or result to another with unintended consequences …

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  • 99slippery as an eel — 1) an idiom, sliding from one s grasp as easily as an eel (which has an elongate, muscular body, no firm protrusions to grasp, small scales and a slimy skin, making it difficult to hold) 2) a good negotiator not easily pinned down on a commitment …

    Dictionary of ichthyology

  • 100slippery dick — a wrasse, Halichoeres bivittatus, inhabiting tropical regions of the Atlantic Ocean. [1875 80] * * * …

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