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Definition of 'lick'English
(licking)
Noun
( en-noun)
The act of licking; a stroke of the tongue.
- The cat gave its fur a lick .
The amount of some substance obtainable with a single lick.
- Give me a lick of ice cream.
A quick and careless application of anything, as if by a stroke of the tongue, or of something which acts like a tongue.
- a lick''' of paint; to put on colours with a '''lick of the brush
* Gray
- a lick of court white wash
A place where animals lick minerals from the ground.
- The birds gathered at the clay lick .
A small watercourse or ephemeral stream. It ranks between a rill and a stream.
- We used to play in the lick .
(colloquial) A stroke or blow.
- Hit that wedge a good lick with the sledgehammer.
(colloquial) A bit.
- You don't have a lick of sense.
- I didn't do a lick of work today.
(music) A short motif.
- There are some really good blues licks in this solo.
speed. In this sense it is always qualified by good', or ' fair or a similar adjective.
- The bus was travelling at a good lick when it swerved and left the road.
Synonyms
* (bit) see also .
Verb
( en-verb)
To stroke with the tongue.
- The cat licked its fur.
(colloquial) To defeat decisively, particularly in a fight.
- My dad can lick your dad.
(colloquial) To overcome.
- I think I can lick this.
(vulgar|slang) To perform cunnilingus.
(colloquial) To do anything partially.
To lap
* 1895 , H. G. Wells, The Time Machine Chapter XI
- Now, in this decadent age the art of fire-making had been altogether forgotten on the earth. The red tongues that went licking up my heap of wood were an altogether new and strange thing to Weena.
To lap; to take in with the tongue.
- A cat licks milk.
- (Shakespeare)
Derived terms
* ass-licker
* cow lick
* good lick
* lick one's chops
( rel-mid3)
* lick one's wounds
* lick out
* lickspittle
* lick up
( rel-mid3)
* licked
* lickety split
* outlick
( rel-bottom)
Similar to 'lick'luck, look, lock, leek, lack, leak, lek, lusk, lask, lesk, laik, lauk, louk, lowk, liek, laick
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