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- 2014, (Anonymous), The Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra, page 10:
- 10.1 How I Glued Shut My Copy of Teen Beat Magazine By Shlicking Hot Juices All Over Jonathan Taylor Thomas's Full Page Spread
Sound
[edit]- something sliding over or into wetness, while getting some traction
- 1975, in Galaxy Science Fiction, volume 34, issues 4-7, page 112:
- And the rain — always there was the rain, falling fine in misty droplets that soaked into his skin and his feet, making a shlick-shlick-shlick sound against the roadway as he ran. The rain: the only reality, ever-present […]
- 1976, Mary Arkley Carter, Tell me my name, page 316:
- It feels warm, steadying. The wipers hiss rhythmically, shlick-plunt, shlick-plunt, as we drive through the soft night rain. Shlick-plunt. Machinery somewhere, hissing softly, deepens the room's hush. Behind the film the eyes gaze very far ahead.
- 1985, Herbert Harker, Circle of fire: a novel, page 84:
- His washing included a great sloshing of water, squishing of soap — shlick, shlick, shlick, splish, swoosh. When he got to his face he moaned and spluttered and rubbed, and last of all ran his still-dripping hands up over the top of his head.
- 2013, Carl Bowen, Sea Demon, page 51:
- Cross and Walker dragged their targets down, then silenced them with their blades.
- SHLICK!
- SHLICK!
- Quietly, carefully, Walker and Cross dragged their targets out of sight.
- lighter being flicked
- 2018, KC Rice, Under His Protection:
- Shlick... Shlick... Shlick. He continued raking his thumb across the lighter. "Hurry the fuck up Vinny, I can't see shit […] "
Pronunciation respelling
[edit]- 1889, M. R. Cullison, Schneider's Albinos, in the American Bee Journal, volume 25, page 327:
- Und hee's er kind or dwist machine
- Vhat jumps dod honey kwick
- Ride oud der combs! Mine hed got schwim
- Dod honey bounce so shlick.
- Now, all dose dhings,—und more as dot,
- Mine vife just dalk er shtring—
- Aboud dose bees vhat Schneider's got […]