I wisht they'd waited until you'd put on your Sunday shirt and slicked up a little.
He's one of these natty, band box chappies, with straw coloured hair slicked down as smooth as if he'd just come up from a dive, and a costume that looks as if it might have been copied from a stained glass window.
The goods after dyeing are washed up, slicked out on an inclined glass table, nailed on boards, or hung up by the hind shanks to dry out.
They are thenslicked out, dried and are ready for dyeing.
The table grease is now slicked off, and the goods are set out in grease, grained and dried.
After hanging in the warm stove for 2 or 3 days the butts are laid away in grease for a month; they are thenslicked out tight, flesh and grain, and buck tallowed.
The grease which is slicked off when "setting out in grease" is collected and sold.
The tannage takes about 24 hours, and when finished the stitching is ripped up, the skins are slicked out, "strained" on frames and dried.
Then I went down to the sloop, and slicked up in my Sunday clothes and started off full chisel to go and see cousin John Beebe.
I parted it straight down the middle, like some of the gals afore class meeting; and I slicked it down with both hands, till it glistened like a black cat in the dark.
With that I took out my hankercher and kinder dusted off my new coat and trousers, and slicked down my hair a leetle, and I follered Mr. Purdy, right up tu where the President was a standing, in his yaller clothes and his cocked hat.
Her scanty hair was pale straw in color, showed dirt, and was slicked back and screwed into a knot about the size of a walnut on the crown of her head.
Her gray hair was parted very precisely in the middle and slicked back close to her head.
I felt turrible, 'cause I hadn't slicked up any yet.
Dan Dolan, grown and fattened and slicked up like--like a yearling heifer!
And Dan who was off on his summer vacation at Killykinick, came down in the "Sary Ann," with Captain Jeb slicked up for the occasion in real "store clothes.
Harvey; "he wouldn't come in 'cause he wasn't slicked up.
The girl succumbed to Anthony's pleasant, melancholy face, and in a moment the door to the inner room opened and admitted a tall, splay-footed man with slicked hair.
She was in her element: her ebony hair was slicked straight back on her head; her eyes were artificially darkened; she reeked of insistent perfume.
It is next slicked with a good grit-stone, to take out the wrinkles, and smooth the coarse grain.
He was slicked up in his best uniform and looked very fine, but, as a sailor and part owner of the canoe, I thought he should come to her aid in such a case of signal distress.
When "Q" got a pound or two for a review, he slicked up in his finest manner and went forth alone to seek and find.
The face he saw was thin and sharp, with hair slickedback from the forehead and narrow, slanting sharp eyes.
My old mammy says," offered Ben Letts, "as how yer son Ezy asked Tessibel Skinner to marry him and as how she slicked him in the face with a dirty dishrag.
I's sorry that I slicked the dirty dishrag in yer face.
To obtain the real purple and fine linen of carmine effects, the color-and-varnish requires to be flowed on freely and quickly, and promptly slicked up.
Well, then, if you must be slicked up and smoothed down by something sweet and agreeable, pick it out for yourself; I am going to study to learn and not because I want to feel comfortable.
To-day one of the German girls came with her hair done like ours, and Fraeulein marched her out of the room and slicked up her hair and braided it so tight her eyes almost popped out of her head.
At last, hair slicked and clothes immaculate, he rushed out into the study where his roomie stood, evidently waiting for him.
She said she'd put everything in my suit case I'd need, so I only slicked up a bit and we were off.
She was slicked up wonderful after seein' the Governor, she telled me.
Well, it's slicked up all it could be on such short notice," said the skipper.
They emerged slicked down and fresh, their hair plastered wet to their foreheads.
His waving brown hair was slicked back from his square, placid brow, his wide, cowlike eyes shone with the glow of the common or domestic fire, his brown beard was neat, and his holiday clothes were clean.
I'm sorry we couldn't get things slicked up better today, but we were so constantly interrupted.
If she had only slicked up the kitchen instead of arguing with Teddy.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "slicked" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
