Meaning

Hair oil..

Definitions by Sense

1. Hair oil.
2. A very fine waste material produced by hydraulic mining which tends to contaminate waterways.
3. A superlubricant packet or spray that can be used to reduce traction on surfaces or as a lubricant.
4. A long-chain polymer that is injected into oil pipelines to reduce turbulent flow.
5. A piece of wood wrapped in abrasive cloth, used for sharpening blades.
6. An SLCM (sea-launched cruise missile).

Example Sentences

Turkington's bright mop of red hair had plainly never known slickem.

Well, old-timer, you begin to look to me like a guy who's left waiting at the church. Frock coat, white carnation, slickem on your curly locks, everything on hand but a bride.

...his black hair plastered down on both sides with slickem, and his natty siders halfway down his cheeks in the most approved shiek style.

Now one of the most engrossing questions in the politics of the State arises from the filling of the rivers and the destruction of the agricultural lands by the debris from these hydraulic mines. A dam on the Feather River, near Marysville, was authorized by the Legislature, and after the expenditure of half a million dollars its success is questioned, and "slickem" continues to muddy at least the political waters.

The miners generally expect to build their own dams. These dams will restrain the coarser material, but not the finest slickem.

While Such surfaces—known among mine Workers - as “slickem-slides”—are by no means uncommon, the Specimens here illustrated are perhaps unique in perfection and interest.

Whitey Hermanson's Leatherneck son thought that his dad's car could get along on iron rations, or whatever Marines carry to their landing with situations in hand, forgot to put some slickem in the case for the turn-arounds, and that knocked the babbit outa the gadgets.

The ice I haven't really met yet, but it looks like that could be overcome with some slickem on the airplane and a careful check with . . .

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