"oil slick" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: oil slicks [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} oil slick (plural oil slicks)
  1. A thin film of oil floating on the surface of water, especially one that has leaked or been discharged from a ship etc Translations (thin film of oil floating on the surface of water): öljylautta (Finnish), marée noire [feminine] (French), Ölspur [feminine] (German), Ölteppich [masculine] (German), maré negra [feminine] (Portuguese), maree neagră [feminine] (Romanian), marea negra [feminine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-oil_slick-en-noun-T05NHHCR Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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