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What (who) is city slicker - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
City slicker (disambiguation)
city slicker
¦ noun informal, derogatory a person with the sophisticated tastes or values associated with city dwellers.
city slicker
(city slickers)
If you refer to someone as a city slicker, you mean that they live and work in a city and are used to city life. (INFORMAL)
...the city slickers in the capital.
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City slicker
City slicker is an idiomatic expression for someone accustomed to a city or urban lifestyle and unsuited to life in the country. The term was typically used as a term of derision by rural Americans and Canadians who regarded them with amusement.
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City slicker
City slicker or City Slickers may refer to:
- City Slickers, a 1991 comedy movie
- City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold, the 1994 sequel to City Slickers
- The City Slicker, a 1918 film starring Harold Lloyd
- Spike Jones & His City Slickers, an American popular music band in the 1940s and 1950s
- Oklahoma City Slickers, two former association football (soccer) teams in Oklahoma City
- "City Slickers", a financial column which appeared in the Daily Mirror during the 1990s
Examples of use of city slicker
1. Its been a bloody good year, said one City slicker, quaffing bubbly in a wine bar.
2. By Tosin Sulaiman FAST cars and luxury houses used to be the essential accessories for a bonus–fat City slicker.
3. The journalist made 41,000 from trading in shares he tipped in his Mirror column, while fellow former City Slicker Anil Bhoyrul made nearly 15,000.
4. He allegedly established contact with the City Slicker columnists in November 1''', learning what tips they were about to print and spreading information on the web.
5. But the ex–City Slicker columnist will not be able to leave prison on bail ahead of the hearing, which is expected to go before the court of appeal in the next two weeks.