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Meanings of oilskins in English
Synonyms
Examples for "slicker"
Examples for "slicker"
1
Its new operating system, iOS 6, is slicker than slugs on ice.
2
It crackled against his slicker; it beat like hands against his face.
3
The second night is predictably slicker, and even features the missing joke.
4
It's a little slicker than the state-saving stuff we've seen so far.
5
Despite never playing together, they looked slicker than the Lions at times.
1
Kim thought of the oilskin packet and the books in the food-bag.
2
The priest was dressed, and now pulled on a great oilskin coat.
3
I got into an oilskin then and walked out to the Fultons'.
4
He opened his oilskin coat, glanced at the compass, and nodded approval.
5
He is wearing a lemon-yellow coat made out of an oilskin sleeping-sack.
Usage of oilskins in English
1
A fleeting vision of the youth in the yellow oilskins mocked him.
2
He took up his oilskins from the floor and slipped into them.
3
Captain Candage had gone on deck, rattling away in his stiff oilskins.
4
A fifth less heavy than the oilskins and tweeds of our forebears?
5
Tell the steward to bring me my oilskins, out of my cabin.
6
Mrs. Warriner was holding two flashlights and a package wrapped in oilskins.
7
It was Ned Kemp, dressed in waders, oilskins and a wool-knit cap.
8
She stood challengingly at my open door, in oilskins, sou'wester, and sea-boots.
9
The oilskins went by the window; the side gate clashed to.
10
Sea-boots and oilskins hang ready in the chart-house, in case it should rain.
11
Darry had cast off his oilskins, as being in the way.
12
Virtue was soon on deck again, muffled up in his oilskins.
13
I think it's in the cubbyhole where we keep our oilskins, you know.
14
Mollie gasped out, as, clad in oilskins, they rushed madly down the stairs.
15
Pip, like a yellow specter in oilskins, came up to them.
16
They were locked together, and one was a skeleton in oilskins.
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Oilskins across language varieties
United Kingdom
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