(n.) A curved tool for smoothing the surfaces of a mold after the withdrawal of the pattern.
(n.) A waterproof coat.
Example Sentences:
(1) Greggs on a roll The most important City news of last week was, of course, provided by Jake Gyllenhaal , the film actor who made his name in some critically acclaimed cowboy movie ( City Slickers ?).
(2) • Doubles from $113 B&B, no phone, ventanasalmarcozumel.com Fusion, Playa del Carmen Facebook Twitter Pinterest Years ago, most of Playa’s hippie beach bars and hostels converted to slicker, louder operations.
(3) Some believe that officials are seeking to protect state broadcaster CCTV as it loses viewers to slicker, livelier provincial upstarts such as Hunan and Jiangsu Television.
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest 2013’s Bad Motherfucker was bigger, nastier and slicker, featuring breasts, swearing, and a German shepherd hurled through a window.
(5) If Algieri’s right hand could tag Khan consistently, what havoc might the infinitely slicker welterweight champ wreak?
(6) I was relatively new to standup, and because it’s a heavily edited TV gig, it makes me look a bit slicker than I am.
(7) Located near all the tourist sites of Hollywood Boulevard, this is slightly more grown up and slicker than the Magic Castle Hotel.
(8) If you watch someone who's really good at doing these sorts of shows, they're much slicker."
(9) Pitch Perfect would give you an all male a cappella team struggling to defeat a slicker, all-female team – in terms of casting, and even in terms of substantial parts, it would be mostly a wash.
(10) Photograph: Popperfoto Some social media reports are faster and slicker than traditional news outlets, which often react to rather than report news, amplifying misinformation.
(11) I wanted the equivalent of the city slickers, from a very different world, turning up in Deadwood .
(12) I have yet to be persuaded there will be any truly new games or any new kinds of interaction from Sony or Microsoft, the best I think we can hope for is more of the same, only slicker, and with a bigger carbon footprint.
(13) Presumably there is a marketing department there now, because there are many shops, all far slicker than Help Poland, including one called Heritage Brides.
(14) The left, more influential then than in recent years, hated the results, but the then Labour leader Neil Kinnock, desperate for power, supported the new, slicker, more voter-friendly approach to political communications.
(15) To follow that logic, Miliband will need to hug a pinstriped City slicker waving a Coutts card to be seen as anywhere near the centre ground.
(16) There have been shows about gay life and the lives of gay men, before: Russell T Davies made history with Channel 4's Queer as Folk, and a slicker US version ran for five seasons.
(17) Sharper, slicker, hungrier and consistently half a yard quicker than West Ham during the first 45 minutes, Sunderland appeared to have undergone a most extraordinary makeover.
(18) The hope is that slicker, more convenient post offices will attract a greater number of small business owners and ordinary shoppers, and help boost sales of financial services such as current accounts, insurance and mortgages.
(19) Zinio (free, paid-for content) similarly displays glossy magazines and has much the same functionality but with a slicker interface; crucially, it turns printed weblinks into interactive ones.
(20) By the end, with Scott Parker incensed by John Mikel Obi's petulant kick, it was easy to forget that Chelsea had not been the slicker of these sides for long periods.
Snicker
Definition:
(v. i.) To laugh slyly; to laugh in one's sleeve.
(v. i.) To laugh with audible catches of voice, as when persons attempt to suppress loud laughter.
(n.) A half suppressed, broken laugh.
Example Sentences:
(1) He said: "A frothy pint of ale and a Snickers from the fridge."
(2) To butcher TS Eliot: I have seen the mercury of my thermometer flicker, And I have seen the eternal footman hold my sheets drenched in sweat at 3am, and snicker, And in short, I was too hot.
(3) Snickers featuring Willem Dafoe Facebook Twitter Pinterest Nothing makes me want to grab a candy bar more than the nightmare image of Willem Dafoe dressed like Marilyn Monroe.
(4) However, the ASA did not receive complaints about their Snickers-related tweets.
(5) More than once I catch her throwing winning glances at the massed ranks of newspaper sketch writers – they're all here, sniffing the air for jokes – and she does an awful lot of snickering behind her hand, something that makes her seem complacent and a little rude (especially given Nye's exquisitely courtly manner).
(6) The Snickers campaign also included celebrities such as Sir Ian Botham and former X Factor contestant Cher Lloyd.
(7) And when that happens, some of the iPhone users who snicker today at phablets will be trumpeting the virtues of Apple's latest products, and they'll be exclaiming how innovative it all is.
(8) They inherited the maker of Mars and Snickers bars in 1999 when their father died.
(9) The final tweet, which was accompanied by a photo of the celebrities holding a snickers bar, used the strapline "you're not you when you're hungry" and the #spon suffix, short for "sponsored" tweet.
(10) Opal Fruits became Starburst, Marathon became Snickers, and Treets became M&Ms.
(11) The campaign by Snickers paid Katie Price and Rio Ferdinand to tweet about the chocolate bar.
(12) I was so happy, I handed out all the sweets from my bag; the guards were eating Snickers and Bounty bars.
(13) I stood by fighting tears while three officers looked over the auction printouts I brought and snickered.
(14) Too often attempts at such serious study is met with a snicker and little or no funding is forthcoming.
(15) The English-language Buenos Aires Herald, however, pointed out that "the snickering about the President's mental health comes at a time [when] she is perceived by much of the public, including those who oppose her, as having shown tremendous strength immediately after her husband's death."
(16) The downside is that I have feet like an owl's talons and so I spend the whole 30 minutes of the treatment suspecting that the poor person who is forced to paint my toes is snickering with her colleagues in code about my talons.
(17) Hence the household cleaning product Jif became Cif and Marathon chocolate bars became Snickers in the UK.
(18) The men in the commentary box snickered, calling the cricketer “amorous” and describing the journalist as scurrying off “with bright red cheeks” .
(19) It also mentioned @snickersUK , the official Snickers Twitter account.
(20) The Advertising Standards Authority , which dealt with its first Twitter investigation in March over a Snickers campaign using Katie Price and Rio Ferdinand, received a complaint that it was not clear the footballers' tweets were advertising.