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What does slippery mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word slippery? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Of a surface, having low friction, often due to being covered in a non-viscous liquid, and therefore hard to grip, hard to stand on without falling, etc.
  2. (figuratively, by extension) Evasive; difficult to pin down.
  3. (obsolete) Liable to slip; not standing firm.
  4. Unstable; changeable; inconstant.
  5. (obsolete) Wanton; unchaste; loose in morals.
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And as it all unravelled, cosy deals, lax auditing, wheels within wheels, and slippery accounting was exposed.
They were slippery with mud, filled with rabbit burrows and gopher holes and rather high up.
It is a work of perfect weighting that shows that Hodgkin can still patrol the slippery frontiers between abstraction and representation.
It appeared to have one more cloth under the heavier top cloth of thick high-quality fine weave, but was smooth and slippery like silk.
Police effectiveness is a notoriously slippery concept to define or measure.
I trudge through sleet on icy sidewalks to look at equally slippery art shows.

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