LIP

Lip

Lips are a visible body part at the mouth of humans and many animals. Lips are soft, movable, and serve as the opening for food intake and in the articulation of sound and speech. Human lips are a tactile sensory organ, and can be erogenous when used in kissing and other acts of intimacy.

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lip

Noun

  1. Either of the two fleshy protrusions around the opening of the mouth.
  2. A part of the body that resembles a lip, such as the edge of a wound or the labia.
  1. The projecting rim of an open container; a short open spout.
  2. Backtalk; verbal impertinence.
    Don’t give me any lip!
  3. The edge of a high spot of land.
  4. The sharp cutting edge on the end of an auger.
  5. One of the two opposite divisions of a labiate corolla.
  6. The distinctive petal of the Orchis family.
  7. One of the edges of the aperture of a univalve shell.

Verb

  1. To touch with the lips; to kiss or lick; to lap the lips against something.
  2. To utter verbally.
  3. To simulate speech merely by lip-movement, as suffices for a lip-reader.
  4. to make a golf ball hit the lip of the cup, without dropping in.


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