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Clicker vs Slicker - What's the difference?

clicker | slicker |

As nouns the difference between clicker and slicker

is that clicker is the remote-control device used to change settings on a television set, VCR, or other electronic equipment while slicker is one who or that which slicks.

As an adjective slicker is

comparative of slick.

clicker

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (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.
    There are too many clickers in this house.
  • A person who cuts out the uppers of shoes from pieces of leather using a flexible knife that clicks as it changes direction.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • A small mechanical device that produces a clicking sound, used in dog training.
  • Someone who clicks, for example on internet hyperlinks.
  • (obsolete, UK) One who stands before a shop door to invite people to buy.
  • (obsolete, printing) One who has charge of the work of a companionship.
  • (webster)

    slicker

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (slick) (adjective)

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (slick)
  • Etymology 2

    From

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who or that which s.
  • A waterproof coat or jacket.
  • A person who is perceived as clever, urbane and possibly disreputable. (abbreviation of city slicker.)
  • A kind of burnisher for leather.
  • (metalworking) A curved tool for smoothing the surfaces of a mould after the withdrawal of the pattern.
  • See also

    * city slicker

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