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lip

lip

1.0
The soft, wet edge of the mouth on people and animals
  • noun
  • /lɪp/
translation icon : labio
  • Do you have any lip balm?
  • upper lip
  • lower lip
  • cleft lip

They do not drag on your lips at all at all.

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Examples

Idioms

Ability to stay calm and not show feelings in hard times

1 8.9

To speak quickly without thinking and risk upsetting people

6.1

Pressing your lips together to keep from laughing or saying something

7.2

To keep quiet on purpose and not tell others

9.9

To say something quickly without thinking

8.4

To keep quiet and not tell others about something

Compounds

34 2.5

A liquid or gel you put on your lips to make them shiny

lip service
  • Informal
20 4.7

Saying you support something without doing anything to help

9 1.4

A soft product you put on lips to stop dryness

4 4.1

A swollen lip that happens after a hit or injury

2 4.7

A person who understands what someone says by watching their lips

2 3.8

To move your lips to match a recorded voice or song

cleft lip
  • Specialized
1 2.7

A split in the upper lip that is there at birth

loose lip
  • Informal
1 7.7

A person who talks too much and tells secrets

lip rouge
  • Archaic
1 5.5

A colored makeup you put on your lips

A small fern with narrow leaves that grows in dry, shaded places in the southeastern United States

9.9

A small plant with divided leaves that grows on dry rocky ground

lip reader
  • Specialized
4.3

A program or device that looks at lip movements in video and turns them into text

To match sound with video so a person's lips move at the same time

4.8

Matching mouth movements to recorded sound in a video or live show

4.4

A short video of someone moving their lips to a song or speech

hairy lip fern
  • Specialized
9.9

A small evergreen plant with woolly hairs on the leaf stems and underside of its leaves

quick lip
  • Informal
9.3

A short rude reply said quickly to show anger or disrespect

smooth lip fern
  • Specialized
8.5

A small green plant with smooth edges on its leaves that grows in shady rocky places

southwestern lip fern
  • Specialized
9.9

A fern with tall upright leaves that grows in dry rocky places in the US southwest

wooly lip fern
  • Specialized
9.9

A small North American evergreen fern with soft wool-like hairs on stems and the underside of leaves

Surface Forms

lip singular
lips plural

Etymology

The word lip comes from an old German word lippa meaning 'edge' or 'rim', and it names the soft, fleshy border of the mouth.