different between clicker vs slicker

English

Etymology

From click +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?kl?k?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?kl?k?/
• Rhymes: -?k?(?)

Noun

clicker (plural clickers)

1. (slang) The remote-control device used to change settings on a television set, VCR, or other electronic equipment.

   We have a clicker for the TV, one for the VCR, one for the DVD player and another one that does it all.

2. An electronic device used by individual students in the classroom to respond to multiple-choice questions, etc.
3. A person who cuts out the uppers of shoes from pieces of leather using a flexible knife that clicks as it changes direction.
4. A machine that cuts materials using a steel rule die. The name comes from the sound (click) when the material is cut. May be hand, pneumatic, or hydraulic powered.
5. A signalling device used by military forces. Pressed between thumb and fingers, it makes a small but distinctive click understood by other members of a unit.
6. A small mechanical device that produces a clicking sound, used in dog training.
7. Someone who clicks, for example using a computer mouse.
8. (Britain, obsolete) One who stands before a shop door to invite people to buy.
9. (printing, obsolete) One who has charge of the work of a companionship.
10. (printing, historical) An employee who locks the type in the form to make it ready for printing.

Derived terms

• clicker game

Anagrams

• clerick

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?k?(?)

Etymology 1

From the adjective slick.

Adjective

slicker

1. comparative form of slick: more slick

Etymology 2

From slick (“to smooth or make slick”) +? -er.

Noun

slicker (plural slickers)

1. One who or that which slicks.
2. (originally Canada, US) A waterproof coat or jacket.
3. A person who is perceived as clever, urbane and possibly disreputable. (abbreviation of city slicker.)
4. (slang) A swindler or conman.
5. A symmetrical knife with a handle at each end, used for burnishing leather.
6. (metalworking) A curved tool for smoothing the surfaces of a mould after the withdrawal of the pattern.
7. A two-handled tool for finishing concrete or mortar; a darby.
8. A brush for grooming a cat and removing loose fur.
   • 2009, Vicky Halls, The Complete Cat (page 225)

     There are numerous grooming products on the market, particularly for longhaired cats – for example, rakes, slickers and detangle sprays, many of which claim to make grooming as simple and safe as possible.

Synonyms

• (waterproof coat or jacket): poncho

Verb

slicker (third-person singular simple present slickers, present participle slickering, simple past and past participle slickered)

1. To slither, as on a slick surface.
2. To con or hoodwink.
3. To use a slicker on.
4. To smooth or slick.
5. To spread mashed manure on fields as a form of fertilization.

See also

• city slicker

Anagrams

• Rickels, Sickler, lickers, relicks, rickles, sickler