lick
see also: Lick
Pronunciation
Lick
Proper noun
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see also: Lick
Pronunciation
- IPA: /lɪk/
lick (plural licks)
- 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.
- a lick of paint
- to put on colours with a lick of the brush
- 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 small amount; a whit.
- Synonyms: Thesaurus:modicum
- You don't have a lick of sense.
- I didn't do a lick of work today.
- 2011 Allen Gregory, "Pilot" (season 1, episode 1):
- Allen Gregory DeLongpre: Why don't I call Jean-Michel at Il Portofino? We'll get a table outside? Ooh, I'm not getting a lick of service. Babe, can I hop on your landline?
- (informal) An attempt at something.
- (music) A short motif.
- There are some really good blues licks in this solo.
- (informal) A rate of speed. (Always qualified by good, fair, or a similar adjective.)
- The bus was travelling at a good lick when it swerved and left the road.
- (slang) An act of cunnilingus.
- You up for a lick tonight?
lick (licks, present participle licking; past and past participle licked)
- (transitive) To stroke with the tongue.
- The cat licked its fur.
- (transitive) To lap; to take in with the tongue.
- She licked the last of the honey off the spoon before washing it.
- (colloquial) To beat with repeated blows.
- 1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XX, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, OCLC 1000326417 ↗, page 163 ↗:
- "What a curious kind of a fool a girl is! Never been licked in school! Shucks! What's a licking! That's just like a girl -- they're so thin-skinned and chicken-hearted. […] "
- (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.
- (of flame, waves etc.) 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.
- 1895, H. G. Wells, The Time Machine Chapter XI
- French: lécher
- German: lecken
- Italian: leccare
- Portuguese: lamber
- Russian: лиза́ть
- Spanish: lamer, lamber
- Spanish: vencer
- German: lecken
- Russian: лиза́ть
Lick
Proper noun
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