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Word: slickum (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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RAGGED BUT RIGHT: GREAT COUNTRY STRING BANDS OF THE 1930s (RCA). Before the rhinestones, country music sounded like this: all heart and no slickum. Gid Tanner and His Skillet Lickers; Wade Mainer . . . the sounds are as good as the names...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Nov. 7, 1988 | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

...long) and flies very low, it is difficult for the Air-launched cruise missile (ALCM) on test flight enemy to track and intercept. There are three varieties: the air-launched cruise missile, ALCM (pronounced al-kum), which is fired from a bomber, and the GLCM (glickum) and SLCM (slickum), the ground-and sea-launched versions of the same weapon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Arms and the Talks: A Glossary | 6/25/1984 | See Source »

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