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nounslickster (plural slicksters)
plural slicksters
- derogatoryA slick person.
Alice and Neil’s wide-eyed, blushing, chaste relationship is pure puppy love, and when that slickster Apollo is pierced by the arrows of Eros (Aphrodite’s son, who inexplicably became a bit of a Jesus freak somewhere along the way) and takes a fancy to Alice — well, all hell breaks loose.
2008 January 13, Alexandra Jacobs, “The House of Myth”, in New York Times
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slickster. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/slickster
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