slickster

English

Etymology

From slick +‎ -ster.

Noun

slickster (plural slicksters)

1. (chiefly derogatory) A slick person.
   • 2008 January 13, Alexandra Jacobs, “The House of Myth”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Alice and Neil’s wide-eyed, blushing, chaste relationship is pure puppy love, and when that slickster Apollo is pierced by the arrows of Eros (Aphrodite’s son, who inexplicably became a bit of a Jesus freak somewhere along the way) and takes a fancy to Alice — well, all hell breaks loose.

Anagrams

• Sticklers, sticklers, strickles, trickless