1syllable
lips
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Definitions oflips
1noun
- Either of the two fleshy protrusions around the opening of the mouth.
Synonyms: labium
- A part of the body that resembles a lip, such as the edge of a wound or the labia.
Synonyms: labium
- (by extension) The projecting rim of an open container; a short open spout.
- Backtalk; verbal impertinence.
Example: "Don’t give me any lip!"
- The edge of a high spot of land.
- The sharp cutting edge on the end of an auger.
- One of the two opposite divisions of a labiate corolla.
- The distinctive petal of the Orchis family.
- One of the edges of the aperture of a univalve shell.
- Embouchure: the condition or strength of a wind instrumentalist's lips.
1verb
- To touch or grasp with the lips; to kiss; to lap the lips against (something).
- (of something inanimate) To touch lightly.
- To wash against a surface, lap.
- To rise or flow up to or over the edge of something.
- To form the rim, edge or margin of something.
- To utter verbally.
- To simulate speech by moving the lips without making any sound; to mouth.
- To make a golf ball hit the lip of the cup, without dropping in.
- To change the sound of (a musical note played on a wind instrument) by moving or tensing the lips.
1verb
- To kiss, to smooch
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