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Date: 1900-2000
Origin: slicker from slick 'to deceive cleverly' (19-20 centuries), from SLICK1

city slicker

 noun
     
city slicker [countable]
someone who lives and works in a city and has no experience of anything outside it - often used to show disapproval
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