Meaning & use
slickster
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A smooth-talking, stylish person who operates with polished confidence, often with an implication of superficiality or trickery.
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The car salesman was a real slickster, charming customers into deals they later regretted.
In the song, the rapper boasts about outsmarting every slickster in the game.
A note on using this word
This informal term blends "slick" with the suffix "-ster" and is common in hip-hop and urban slang, often used with mixed admiration and suspicion.
Words with a similar meaning
smooth operatorwheeler-dealer
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