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👅 To touch with tongue 👊 A hit 🧠 To solve 👅 A tongue touch 🏆 To defeat 🧂 A mineral spot
lick

lick

9 1.0
A touch that the tongue makes to taste or clean
  • noun
  • /lɪk/
: lametazo
  • He gave the stamp a lick to make it stick to the envelope.
  • take licks
  • grooming and licking
  • licking behavior

So the day after the foot licking, she told Epstein that it went great.

Examples

  • After Clem greeted him with a couple of sloppy licks, he walked to the dock where his kayak was stored.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • One more lick, then you're cut off.

    The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature (2017)

  • A small lick, I should think.

    Winnie the Pooh (2011)

  • Can I have one lick?

    IF (2024)

  • And come June, oh, baby, it is the lick of my spoon.

    Magnolia (1999)

  • How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop?

    Davy Crockett, Indian Scout (1950)

  • How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll Pop?

    Academic text (2007)

  • When Jackie's younger sister, Lizzy, got her cone, she took one lick and the ice cream fell.

    Fiction book (2001)

  • The dog took a quick lick of the ice cream cone before I could stop him.

  • After a long hike, we all enjoyed a refreshing lick of the cool water from the stream.

Idioms

lick of
  • Informal
5 6.8

A very small amount of something, often a taste like honey

to lick someone's boot
  • Offensive
3 8.9

Praise or act very friendly toward a boss to get something for yourself

to lick someone's ass
  • Offensive
1 9.9

To praise someone too much to get their favor in a rude way

lick and a promise
  • UK
1 9.9

A quick, not complete job done hastily and meant to be finished properly later

to lick one's wounds
  • Informal
7.0

To rest and feel better after a loss or disappointment

to lick the CEO's balls
  • Offensive
9.9

To praise and obey a powerful person to get their support

to lick the pants off
  • Informal
9.6

To beat someone completely or praise them too much

Compounds

salt lick
3 6.5

A place where animals go to lick salt to get minerals

How Much

to lap
5 5.4
lick
9 1.0
to taste
305 1.0

Surface Forms

lick singular
licks plural

Etymology

Lick for 'an act of touching with the tongue' comes from the old English verb liccian meaning 'to lick', so a lick is simply one touch of the tongue, like a lick of ice cream.