lip balm
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- noun
- /lɪp bɑm/
:
bálsamo labial
- I keep a lip balm in my bag to prevent my lips from getting dry during the winter.
But the smell of this lip balm is so good.
- But the smell of this lip balm is so good.
- Anyways, this is the plumping lip balm or like gloss Topper.
- So first lip balm just to moisturize the lips.
- And then on top of this, I go in with a lip balm with SPFI.
- This is his lip balm, the She's Juicy lip balm.
- And it's the Rev de Miel lip balm for dry or chapped lips.
- Cracked lips are gross so use the lip balm to hydrate your lips.
Examples
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Why don't you put some more lip balm then?
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Cracked lips are gross so use the lip balm to hydrate your lips.
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And it is the best lip balm I have ever, ever used.
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But the smell of this lip balm is so good.
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Throw on your lip balm and ladies, we are done.
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Do you have any lip balm?
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I also left my lip balm in the car.
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Hey, I should have applied lip balm because my lip is cracking.
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It is the best, in my opinion, lip balm ever.
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If you have chapped lips, make a lip balm that will soothe them.
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Synonyms
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3.7
A soft medicine that you put on the skin to heal or soothe irritation
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3.2
A small stick of lip balm used to prevent or treat dry lips
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Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from combining 'lip' (the fleshy edges of the mouth) with 'balm' (a thick, oily topical preparation), indicating a topical substance for the lips. This straightforward noun–noun compounding pattern is common in English and across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily understand it.
Etymology
Lip balm is a compound name made from lip (where you put it) and balm (a soft, soothing cream). Picture smoothing that cream over cold, cracked lips so they stay protected and heal, and that's why it means 'a product to prevent or heal chapped or dry lips'.