Sekirov Dictionary

lick

/lɪk/

verb 8
noun 12
forms 6
phrases 14

verb8

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to pass the tongue lightly across something
- The cat licked its fur.
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To lap; to take in with the tongue.
- She licked the last of the honey off the spoon before washing it.
- Jim closed his eyes and licked his vanilla ice cream cone.
•
To lap.
- 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
•
(informal, old-fashioned) To defeat decisively, particularly in a fight.
- My dad can lick your dad.
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(informal, old-fashioned) To overcome.
- I think I can lick this.
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(informal, old-fashioned) To beat with repeated blows.
- "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. […]" — 1876
(slang, vulgar) To perform cunnilingus.
(informal) To do anything partially.

noun12

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The act of licking; a stroke of the tongue.
- The cat gave its fur a lick.
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(slang) An act of cunnilingus.
- You up for a lick tonight?
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The amount of some substance obtainable with a single lick.
- Give me a lick of ice cream.
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(informal) A small amount; a whit.
- You don't have a lick of sense.
- I didn't do a lick of work today.
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A quick and careless application of anything, as if by a stroke of the tongue.
- to put on colours with a lick of the brush
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A short motif.
- There are some really good blues licks in this solo.
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(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.
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A place where animals lick minerals from the ground.
- The birds gathered at the clay lick.
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(informal) A stroke or blow.
- Hit that wedge a good lick with the sledgehammer.
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An instance or opportunity to earn money fast, usually by illegal means, thus a heist, drug deal etc. or its victim; mostly used in phrasal verbs: hit a lick, hit licks
- Bitch, pig, pull out with the stick / everything I hit like a lick / We don’t miss — 2018
(informal) An attempt at something.
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A small watercourse or ephemeral stream. It ranks between a rill and a stream.
- We used to play in the lick.

forms

licked · lickt · licking · licketh · licks · lickest

Phrases with lick

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