slick down
English
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editslick down (third-person singular simple present slicks down, present participle slicking down, simple past and past participle slicked down)
- To make hair flat by putting oil, water, etc. on it.
- 1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 96:
- His unruly hair was slicked down with water, and as Jessamy introduced him to Miss Brindle his face assumed a cherubic innocence which would immediately have aroused the suspicions of anyone who knew him.