lip
/lɪp/ verb C2- To touch or grasp with the lips; to kiss; to lap the lips against (something).
- 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.
He/she/it lips · Past lipped · Past participle lipped · -ing form lipping
Verb forms
- Base form
- lip
- He/she/it
- lips
- Past
- lipped
- Past participle
- lipped
- -ing form
- lipping
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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He gnawed his lip, drummed his fingers upon the table, and showed every other symptom of acute impatience.
So far, the ordinary observer; an extraordinary observer might have seen that the chin was very pointed and pronounced; that the big eyes were full of spirit and vivacity; that the mouth was sweet-lipped and expressive; that the forehead was broad and full; in short, our discerning extraordinary observer might have concluded that no commonplace soul inhabited the body of this stray woman-child of whom shy Matthew Cuthbert was so ludicrously afraid.
“Or for a pledge?” said Bagheera, his white teeth bared under his lip.
If Rikki-tikki had only known, he was doing a much more dangerous thing than fighting Nag, for Karait is so small, and can turn so quickly, that unless Rikki bit him close to the back of the head, he would get the return stroke in his eye or his lip.
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