lick

Plural: licks

Noun

• a salt deposit that animals regularly lick
• touching with the tongue
• (boxing) a blow with the fist
• The act of licking; a stroke of the tongue.
• The amount of some substance obtainable with a single lick.
• A quick and careless application of anything, as if by a stroke of the tongue.
• A place where animals lick minerals from the ground.
• A small watercourse or ephemeral stream. It ranks between a rill and a stream.
• A stroke or blow.
• A small amount; a whit.
• An attempt at something.
• A short motif.
• A rate of speed. (Always qualified by good, fair, or a similar adjective.)
• An act of cunnilingus.
• 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

Verb

Verb Forms: licked, licking, licks

• To pass the tongue over a surface.
• beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight
  • "We licked the other team on Sunday!"
• pass the tongue over
  • "the dog licked her hand"
• find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of
• take up with the tongue
  • "the cub licked the milk from its mother's breast"
• To stroke with the tongue.
• To lap; to take in with the tongue.
• To beat with repeated blows.
• To defeat decisively, particularly in a fight.
• To overcome.
• To perform cunnilingus.
• To do anything partially.
• To lap.

Examples

• a lick of paint
• Give me a lick of ice cream.
• Hit that wedge a good lick with the sledgehammer.
• I didn't do a lick of work today.
• I think I can lick this.
• I wanted to LICK my opponent in Words With Friends, but they kept playing perfect blocks.
• Jim closed his eyes and licked his vanilla ice cream cone.
• My dad can lick your dad.
• She licked the last of the honey off the spoon before washing it.
• The birds gathered at the clay lick.
• The bus was travelling at a good lick when it swerved and left the road.
• The cat gave its fur a lick.
• The cat licked its fur.
• There are some really good blues licks in this solo.
• to put on colours with a lick of the brush
• We used to play in the lick.
• You don't have a lick of sense.
• You up for a lick tonight?

Synonyms

bat, biff, clobber, clout, cream, drub, figure out, lap, lap up, poke, punch, puzzle out, salt lick, slug, solve, thrash, work, work out, ace, atom, aught, bissel, bit, crumb, dab, damn, dash, diddly, dot, drop, dusting, fleck, flip, flyspeck, glimpse, glint, grain, halfpennyworth, hint, inch, iota, jot, lick, mite, modicum, molecule, morceau, morsel, mote, ooch, ounce, particle, pennyworth, piece, pinch, scantling, scent, scintilla, scooch, scrap, scruple, semblance, shred, skerrick, skoosh, skosh, sliver, smattering, smidge, smidgen, smidget, smidgy, smitch, smithereen, soupçon, spark, spatter, speck, speckle, spot, sprinkle, sprinkling, strain, tad, tidbit, tidge, tittle, toddick, touch, trace, trifle, tuppence worth, whiff, whit

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