to lip
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7.2
- verb
- /lɪp/
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- As he sat on the grass, the dog lipped at his hand gently, asking for some food.
Examples
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The baby lipped the spoon cautiously, tasting the mushy food for the first time.
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During the picnic, she leaned down to lip the cool water from the stream.
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I'm going to do a little bit, just lip it like that.
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Where'd you learn to lip read?
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Ask if they need to lip-read.
Academic text (2011) -
She's learning to speak and lip-read.
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Well, he's the village schoolmaster, and I know he can lip-read.
Synonyms
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1.0
To touch someone with your lips to show love, greeting, or respect
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7.4
To touch an object with the lips, usually gently
Idioms
- Informal
Pressing your lips together to keep from laughing or saying something
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
A small fern with narrow leaves that grows in dry, shaded places in the southeastern United States
- Specialized
A program or device that looks at lip movements in video and turns them into text
- Specialized
A small evergreen plant with woolly hairs on the leaf stems and underside of its leaves
- Specialized
A small green plant with smooth edges on its leaves that grows in shady rocky places
- Specialized
A fern with tall upright leaves that grows in dry rocky places in the US southwest
- Specialized
A small North American evergreen fern with soft wool-like hairs on stems and the underside of leaves
How Gentle
Surface Forms
Etymology
The verb lip comes from using your lip to touch something gently, so to 'lip' an object is to touch, move, or take it with the lips.