what is a "city slicker"?

Answer 1

A person with the sophisticated manner and dress traditionally associated by rural people with city dwellers.

Answer 2

It's an old term older country people use to refer to a guy from the city that wears fashionable clothes and has a job that never allows his hands to get dirty.
A guy with an office job in a big city.

I believe the word slick in the word slicker is pertaining to the shiny patten leather shoes the city guys wear sometimes.
They look slick.

Also, someone wearing an expensive suit is said to look really slick. That's a common phrase even in the city.

Answer 3

anyone who was in the movie "City Slickers"

Answer 4

city slicker
n. Informal.
A person with the sophisticated manner and dress traditionally associated by rural people with city dwellers.





The noun city slicker has one meaning:

Meaning #1: a city dweller with sophisticated manners and clothing
Synonym: city boy


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City Slickers
City Slickers

City Slickers poster
Directed by Ron Underwood
Produced by Billy Crystal
Irby Smith
Written by Lowell Ganz
Babaloo Mandel
Starring Billy Crystal
Bruno Kirby
Daniel Stern
Patricia Wettig
Helen Slater
and Jack Palance
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Release date(s) June 7 1991 (USA)
Running time 112 min.
Language English
IMDb profile
City Slickers is a 1991 movie comedy starring Billy Crystal, Bruno Kirby, Daniel Stern, Helen Slater, and Jack Palance. Palance won the year's Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for this film.

Three years later, the sequel City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold was released. With Jon Lovitz taking the place of Kirby, it was not received as well as the original.

This film is number 73 on Bravo's "100 Funniest Movies" and number 86 on AFI's 100 Years... 100 Laughs.


Plot overview
"Mitch", "Phil", and "Ed" are three men in their 30s or 40s, each going through his own mid-life crisis. Mitch (played by Crystal) feels especially depressed about his job and family. At a party, his lifelong friends Phil and Ed show him a brochure for a two-week Southwestern cattle drive vacation that they have signed up for.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
Phil (Stern's character) is the manager of a grocery store owned by his father-in-law. When one of the store's checkout girls suddenly arrives at the party and reveals her affair with Stern's character, his wife threatens to divorce him. "Ed" (played by Kirby) is newly married to a woman with supermodel looks and faces the pressure of being a father.

When the three men arrive at the scene of the cattle drive, they soon meet their gruff, intimidating trail boss, Curly (played by Palance). Curly and Mitch eventually bond when they go off to round up strays. Mitch even assists in giving birth to a calf he names Norman. Mitch eventually comes to respect Curly, whom he finds to be deeply fascinating and wise. But soon after they return to camp, Curly dies unexpectedly. The cook breaks his leg; the trail boss' thug assistants become drunk and abandon the tour. It is up to the "city slickers" to finish the drive.

Crystal, Kirby, and Stern's characters lead the herd back successfully to the Colorado ranch. There, Crystal shares the last thing Curly taught him. It was a profound existentialist lesson (like Kierkegaard's idea that I could live and die for): what really matters in life is for each of us to find our passion, our "One Thing". The trio's triumphant return is spoiled when the ranch owner announces he is going to sell the herd for a handsome profit for slaughter. Mitch and his friends protest, but the owner is unmoved. While Mitch's friends come to accept this decision since they believe that cattle wouldn't care, Mitch feels he has betrayed the animals' trust, especially when Norman comes to nuzzle him.

In the end, Mitch finds his "One Thing" as he nearly drowns in a rain-swollen river. He is saved, returns to his family, and embarks on a more meaningful, purposeful life. In addition, Mitch spares Norman from slaughter by purchasing him and bringing the calf home long enough to be placed in a petting zoo.

Answer 5

someone who lives, works, breathes, and eats the city
in other words they do everything in the big city

Answer 6

a person who lives in the city i guess

Answer 7

people who live in the city who don't really know what a cow looks like.

Answer 8

what country people call city people

Answer 9

a type of place

Answer 10

It's a rural resident's term for an urban resident.