super-slick

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adjective

very well-executed or presented

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Let’s start with some etymology: What are the origins of the typographical word “bracket”?

First appeared around 1750, and is related to the French word “braguette” for the name of codpiece armor.

First appeared in 1610, based on the French word “baguette” for the long loaf of bread.

First appeared in 1555, and is related to the French word “raquette” for a netted bat.

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Words nearby super-slick

supersensual, superserviceable, supersession, supersex, supersize, super-slick, super-smooth, supersonic, supersonics, supersonic transport, superspeed

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Example sentences from the Web for super-slick

Boys are taught early in life to devalue care, to be hyper-competitive, super-achieving men.
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The relationships, and motivations of their chief participants, are as tangled and shady as you expect of the super-rich.
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Officials also had received reports of loud bangs—called in by fishermen—and an oil slick.
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Further, in the Super Tuesday states of Florida, Texas, and Virginia, Paul is operating at a decided disadvantage.
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But Goff called it “insulting” to suggest that he might be running a super PAC for personal gain.
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Not only did he provide sub-octave and super-octave couplers freely, but he even added a Swell Sub-quint to Great coupler!
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This circumstance alone, ought to be strong evidence, even to a skeptic, of its super-human origin.
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I was goin' to slick up and drop around to see her, but this here Injun agent got in ahead of me.
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His eyes were sighting along an instrument of his own devising as if he were aiming some super-gun of a great air cruiser.
Astounding Stories, May, 1931|Various
Lords not only ought to be gentlefolk, and be fed and waited upon and live in affluent idleness, but super-gentlefolk.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 152, May 16, 1917.|Various

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